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    This anticipation guide discusses human exploration and knowledge of the world throughout history in 10 statements. It suggests that 6,000 years ago, people only knew the area within a few days' travel of their homes, but that knowledge expanded over time as explorers like Phoenicians, Arab warriors who conquered lands from Spain to India, Polynesians who island-hopped, Arab merchants, and Marco Polo who traveled the Silk Road ventured out farther and shared their findings.

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    This anticipation guide discusses human exploration and knowledge of the world throughout history in 10 statements. It suggests that 6,000 years ago, people only knew the area within a few days' travel of their homes, but that knowledge expanded over time as explorers like Phoenicians, Arab warriors who conquered lands from Spain to India, Polynesians who island-hopped, Arab merchants, and Marco Polo who traveled the Silk Road ventured out farther and shared their findings.

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    This anticipation guide discusses human exploration and knowledge of the world throughout history in 10 statements. It suggests that 6,000 years ago, people only knew the area within a few days' travel of their homes, but that knowledge expanded over time as explorers like Phoenicians, Arab warriors who conquered lands from Spain to India, Polynesians who island-hopped, Arab merchants, and Marco Polo who traveled the Silk Road ventured out farther and shared their findings.

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    Anticipation Guide

    Before After
    Agree Disagree Statement and Evidence Agree Disagree
    1. Six thousand years ago people knew
    little about what existed more than a few
    days’ journey away from their own homes.

    Evidence:
    2. When Europeans first reached the
    remote islands, they found the islands
    already inhabited by the Phoenicians.

    Evidence:
    3. Not all the exploration took place over
    rolling seas.

    Evidence:
    4. Arab warriors traveled vast distances
    to conquer an empire that stretched
    from northern Spain across North Africa
    to northwest India on the sixth seventh
    centuries.

    Evidence:
    5. The most educated Europeans knew
    little about the world outside Europe.

    Evidence:
    6. The Mediterranean was dominated by
    two great empires.

    Evidence:

    7. The Polynesians were “island-hoping.”

    Evidence:

    8. The Silk Road is the most important land


    routes.

    Evidence:

    9. Arab merchants went in all directions to


    find new trading areas.

    Evidence: :

    10. Marco Polo traveled the entire length of


    the Silk Road.
    Evidence:

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