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16 Cards in this Set
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Marco Polo
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A great merchant who traveled from europe to asia
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Venice
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Marco Polo was born in .............. in1254
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sevral ships
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it took .............................. to get back to venice
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Kublai Kahn
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ruler of china
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1324
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stories might have been lost after his death in ....
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Genoese war
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after three years m.p was captured by the .........................
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rustchello from pisa
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wrote the book description of the world
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expeditons
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merchants used the book to plan ....................
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banking developments
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merchants from the eastern brought furs lumber and stone and soon needed .......................................
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medici family
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first family in europe to become wealthy from banking
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sahara
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2/3 of the U S
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ZHU DI
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emporer of china
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silk road
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named after the most important item carried over it
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prince henry
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proved there is a way to get to asia
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cape of good hope
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found by dias and was the new route of the east
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vasco da gama
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the first ever to sail to asia
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