5th Grade Social Studies Study Guide

Chapter Three Study Guide

Know the following vocabulary words and people:

- Middle Ages
- merchant
- expedition
- Marco Polo
- Kublia Khan
- currency
- caravan
- Sunni Ali
- Zheng He
- navigation
- caravel
- Prince Henry


Be able to answer the following questions:

1. Analyze how Marco Polo's travels to Asia led to European interest in the rest of the world.

2. What effect did they inventions of the windmill and watermill have on European farmers in the MiddleAges?

3. Analyze how trade grew during the Middle Ages.

4. Why was Timbuktu and important trade city?

5. Predict what might have happened if the new emperor of China had not destroyed the sailing ships of Zheng He.

6. Why was Prince Henry called " Henry the Navigator?"

7. How did improvements in such inventions as the magnetic compass and astrolable make sailing easier?

8. What changes in agriculture took place in Europe in the  twelfth century?

9. How did the Cape of Good Hope get its name?

10. How did the emperor Zhu Di increase contact between China and other countries?