Houghton Mifflin Social Studies
Chapter 1, Lesson 2: The Expanding Horizon (pp. 10-15)
I. Merchants, Soldiers, Explorers, Pilgrims
B. Soldiers, who traveled and fought on horseback, used stirrups, bits, and horseshoes to make riding easier.
C. Explorers developed and used sails, rudders, and compasses to improve their ships.
D. As travel became safer, more people traveled throughout the world and enlarged their world view.
B. As the Roman Empire declined, the work of the Roman mapmaker Ptolemy was forgotten in Europe.
C. From the 1200s on, European mapmakers used the knowledge of scholars from the Muslim Empire and inventions from the East.
Lesson at a Glance Outline
A. Around the year 1100 B.C., merchants began to use camels and travel in caravans to transport their goods safely.
II. Early Maps
A. As travelers collected new information about lands they visited, mapmakers could make more accurate maps.
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