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What was the age of exploration? / by Catherine Daly ; illustrated by Jake Murray.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: What was--?Publisher: New York : Penguin Workshop, [2021]Description: 107 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 20 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780593093832
  • 0593093836
  • 9780593093825
  • 0593093828
Other title:
  • Age of exploration
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
What was the age of exploration? -- Marco Polo and the Silk Road -- Portugal leads the way -- The slave trade begins -- A new player: Christopher Columbus -- Things get spicy for Portugal -- All the way around the globe -- A new kind of explorer -- The Inca -- The search for the Northwest Passage -- The Age of Exploration: a lasting impact -- Timelines.
Summary: An introduction to the Age of Exploration covers the nautical practices of fifteenth-century Europe, Henry the Navigator's fateful new sea routes, and the impact of European advancement on ancient civilizations.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Children's Book Children's Book Dr. James Carlson Library Children's NonFiction 910.9 D153 Available 33111009800158
Children's Book Children's Book Main Library Children's NonFiction 910.9 D153 Available 33111010495196
Children's Book Children's Book Northport Library Children's NonFiction 910.9 D153 Available 33111009839651
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Before the fifteenth century, European sailors were unsure what waited for them beyond their well-known travel routes around the Mediterranean Sea, so they kept within sight of land. But all of that changed after Prince Henry the Navigator of Portugal started sending ships down the coast in the hope of finding a sea route to India and Africa. This was the beginning of a giant leap toward understanding what the globe actually looked like. Certain European nations grew rich and powerful from the New World gold and lands they claimed, while advanced, long-standing civilizations like the Aztecs and Incas were destroyed in the cruelest of ways.

This book also features the fun black-and-white illustrations and engaging 16-page photo insert that readers have come love about the What Was? series!

"An official Who HQ book"--Cover.

An introduction to the Age of Exploration covers the nautical practices of fifteenth-century Europe, Henry the Navigator's fateful new sea routes, and the impact of European advancement on ancient civilizations.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 106-107).

What was the age of exploration? -- Marco Polo and the Silk Road -- Portugal leads the way -- The slave trade begins -- A new player: Christopher Columbus -- Things get spicy for Portugal -- All the way around the globe -- A new kind of explorer -- The Inca -- The search for the Northwest Passage -- The Age of Exploration: a lasting impact -- Timelines.

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