What was the age of exploration?
Title:
What was the age of exploration?
Author:
Daly-Weir, Catherine.
Murray, Jake.
ISBN:
9780593093825
Publication Information:
New York : Penguin Workshop, c2021.
Physical Description:
107 p. : ill., maps ; 20 cm
Series:
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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.
Abstract:
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.
Subject:
| Discoveries in geography -- Juvenile literature. |
| Explorers -- Juvenile literature. |
| Discoveries in geography. |
| Explorers. |
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.