Age of Exploration (eBook)

Age of Exploration (eBook)
Author: Susan Lampros
Publisher: Lorenz Educational Press
Total Pages: 28
Release: 1971-09-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0787784184

The Age of Exploration contains 12 full-color transparencies (print books) or PowerPoint slides (eBooks), 12 reproducible pages, and a richly detailed teacher's guide. Among the topics covered in this volume are Marco Polo, the Portuguese explorers, Christopher Columbus, the Cabots and Verrazano, Magellan, Spanish explorers, Sir Francis Drake, explorers of the north, French exploration, and Captain Cook.

The Age of Exploration

The Age of Exploration
Author: Susanna Keller
Publisher: Encyclopaedia Britannica
Total Pages: 80
Release: 2015-12-15
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1508100322

The story of the European discovery of North America does not end with—in fact it does not really even begin with—Christopher Columbus. This engaging title tells the story of the explorers who became the first Europeans to visit the lands that would later become the United States of America. Readers will learn about the Spanish explorers of the Southwest and the Gulf Coast, the English and Dutch explorers of the Atlantic Coast, and the French explorers of the St. Lawrence River, the Great Lakes, and the Mississippi River. They’ll discover what the goals and motivations behind each expedition were, which native people the explorers encountered, and what sorts of obstacles had to be overcome for each expedition to succeed. A fascinating account of a formational period in American history.

What Was the Age of Exploration?

What Was the Age of Exploration?
Author: Catherine Daly
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2021-03-09
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0593093836

Land ho! Discover what the Age of Exploration was all about in this wonderful addition to the bestselling Who HQ series! 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!

The Age of Discovery, 1400-1600

The Age of Discovery, 1400-1600
Author: David Arnold
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 85
Release: 2013-09-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 1136479686

The Age of Discovery explores one of the most dramatic features of the late medieval and early modern period: when voyagers from Western Europe led by Spain and Portugal set out across the world and established links with Africa, Asia and the Americas. This book examines the main motivations behind the voyages and discusses the developments in navigation expertise and technology that made them possible. This second edition brings the scholarship up to date and includes two new chapters on the important topics of the idea of "discovery" and on biological and environmental factors which favoured or limited European expansion.

The Age of Exploration

The Age of Exploration
Author: Andrew A. Kling
Publisher: Greenhaven Publishing LLC
Total Pages: 114
Release: 2013-01-14
Genre: Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN: 1420511343

Swashbuckling pirates raiding treasure galleons and dashing explorers traversing the unknown; this is how many perceive the Age of Exploration. The quest to explore beyond the horizon was driven by more than a need to understand the unknown. Great political and financial prospects lured those individuals and nations who dared explore. This compelling volume offers readers an in-depth account of the eccentric characters, cutting-edge technologies, and the exotic locations, real and imagined, that drove exploration of the New World as well as the Old World. Chapters engage pertinent critical discussions including early exploration of trade routes through the Muslim world; Bartolomeu Dias sailing around the southern cape of Africa; Christopher Columbus reaching the Bahamas Islands, Cuba and Hispaniola; Vasco da Gama rounding Africa and reaches the Indian port of Calicut; and many more. The edition also offers readers a timeline, maps, quotations from primary source materials, and a thorough subject index.

Age of Discovery

Age of Discovery
Author: Captivating History
Publisher: Captivating History
Total Pages: 122
Release: 2020-05
Genre:
ISBN: 9781647486938

The Age of Discovery began in the early part of the 15th century and carried on through most of the 17th century. It is sometimes also referred to as the Age of Exploration. This was a time when the people of Europe began to travel, discover, and explore more of the world than ever before, mapping and naming the places they found.

Age of Exploration

Age of Exploration
Author: John Rigby Hale
Publisher:
Total Pages: 200
Release: 1966
Genre: Discoveries (in geography)
ISBN:

Presented by H.S. Rhee, n.d.

Age of Exploration DBA

Age of Exploration DBA
Author: Social Studies School Service
Publisher: Social Studies
Total Pages: 61
Release: 2003
Genre: Discoveries in geography
ISBN: 1560041692

The Age of Reconnaissance

The Age of Reconnaissance
Author: John Horace Parry
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 388
Release: 1981
Genre: Colonization
ISBN: 9780520042353

Covers the period during which Europe discovered the rest of the world, beginning with the mid-fifteenth century and ending 250 years later when the "Reconnaissance" was all but complete. The author examines the inducements--political, economic, religious--to overseas enterprise at the time, and analyzes the nature and problems of the various European settlements in the new lands.