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Author:

Daly-Weir, Catherine, author.

Title:

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

Publisher:

Penguin Workshop,

Copyright Date:

2021

Description:

107 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm

Subject:

Discoveries in geography--Juvenile literature.
Explorers--Juvenile literature.

Other Authors:

Murray, Jake, illustrator.

Notes:

"An official Who HQ book"--Cover. "Who HQ. Your headquarters for history. Who? What? Where?"-- back cover. Includes bibliographical references (pages 106-107).

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 glove -- A new kind of explorer -- The Inca -- The search for the Northwest Passage -- The age of exploration: A lasting impact.

Summary:

"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."-- provided by publisher.

Series:

What was?

ISBN:

0593093828
9780593093825
0593093836
9780593093832

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1240498598

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