What was the age of exploration?
INITIAL_TITLE_SRCH:
What was the age of exploration?
AUTHOR:
Daly-Weir, Catherine.
Murray, Jake.
ISBN:
9780593093825
PUBLICATION_INFO:
New York : Penguin Workshop, c2021.
PHYSICAL_DESC:
107 p. : ill., maps ; 20 cm
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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. |
BIBSUMMARY:
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.