Chapter 10The Age of Exploration

Traders & Explorers

Lesson 1

Marco Polo

• Italian merchant who spent 25 years in Asia

Khanbalik

• City in china that was unknown to the Europeans

Kublai Khan

• Great Chinese Leader

Book written by Marco Polo

• Ye shall find all kinds of wonderful things!

Henry the Navigator

• Convinced there was an all water route from Europe to the Indies

Astronomy

• Study of planets, stars, & other heavenly bodies

Compass

• Most important instrument of navigation

Caravel

• Sailing ship better suited for rough seas & long voyages

Bartholomeu Dias

• Left Portugal & steered his fleet around the southern tip of Africa – called it the “Cape of Storms”

Vasco da Gama

• Sailed his ships into India

Calicut

• Port in India in which da Gama sailed

Christopher Columbus

• Sails for India, discovers the “new world”

Christopher Columbus

Chapter 10The Age of Exploration

The Beginning of Modern Science

Lesson 2

Copernicus

• Astronomer who believed that the revolved around the sun

Geocentric Theory

• All the planets revolve around the sun

Heliocentric Theory

• The sun is the center of the universe

Galileo

• Developed a way to prove the truth of the Heliocentric Theory

Telescope

• Makes faraway objects appear closer

Isaac Newton

• Offered proof that the earth revolves around the sun

Gravity• Force that causes objects to be pulled toward

the center of the Earth