Test 8 WHH
Test 8 WHH
Marco Polo
- Merchant of Venice - traveled to Asia - lived w/ Mongols for about 20 years
- personal friend to Kublai Khan
- late 1200's - he returns to Europe w/ knowledge of the riches of Asia
- trade increases
- trade between Europe and Asia had existed in past -> silk road
- 1453- the Muslim conquest of Constantinople shut off the traditional trade route
New Tech.
- caravel- ocean-worthy boat
- latitude and longitude
- astrolabe
- lateen
- redesigned rudder
- magnetic compass