Author : Michael Sandler
Publisher : Benchmark Education Company
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 41,86 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1450907458
Find out about how explorers from Spain, England, and France claimed land for their countries in the Americas.
Author : Christine Taylor-Butler
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 33,14 MB
Release : 2022-07-19
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1338856642
Discover the origins of European exploration of the Americas. A True Book: American History series allows readers to experience the earliest moments in American history and to discover how these moments helped shape the country that it is today. This series includes an age appropriate (grades 3-5) introduction to curriculum-relevant subjects and a robust resource section that encourages independent study. This book describes the origins of European exploration of the Americas, including the Vikings, the search for a new route to Asia, for gold, and for a Northwest Passage, and discusses the Lewis and Clark Expedition and modern explorers.
Author : Janey Levy
Publisher : Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 40,85 MB
Release : 2019-07-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1538237458
It's something many Americans are certain is a solid fact: Columbus discovered America. While he is not with us to prove or disprove this fact, we now know that Columbus just wasn't the guy. First, Columbus never landed on the North American mainland. Second, how can someone "discover" a place that's already home to millions of people? In this lively and engaging book, readers will uncover the truth behind many myths about explorers in the Americas. Accessible text addresses important elementary social studies topics. Vivid images enliven the design, while captions, fact boxes, and a graphic organizer enrich the main content.
Author : Aleck Loker
Publisher : Aleck Loker
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 34,40 MB
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 1928874193
These are the stories you never learned in school. Ice Ace voyagers, Chinese, Viking, Phoenician, Hebrew, Libyan, and Irish explorers came to America years before Columbus. This book outlines eighteen different waves of adventurers who came to America, some to settle permanently, others just to trade for natural resources of the New World. Many of these stories are controversial, but taken in their entirety, they make for a compelling argument that the simplistic story of Columbus "discovering" America can no longer be accepted.
Author : Betsy Maestro
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 41,94 MB
Release : 1997-08-25
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0688154743
Christopher Columbus was not the first to discover the Americas, but his voyages led to European exploration of the New World. Rich in resources and natural beauty, the Americas were irresistible to gold-hungry conquistadors. The newcomers gave little thought to those who had called the lands their home, and exploration soon came to signify conquest. The New World -- and the lives of its inhabitants -- would be changed forever.
Author : Jeff C. Young
Publisher : Enslow Publishing, LLC
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 37,34 MB
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781598451047
"Discusses the life of Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto, including his travels in the Americas, the claim of Florida for Spain, and his eventual discovery of the Mississippi River"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Russell Freedman
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 32,88 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780618663910
Discusses the possibility that America was discovered by someone other than Columbus.
Author : Frederick Winthrop Hutchinson
Publisher :
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 49,61 MB
Release : 1909
Category : America
ISBN :
Author : Ralph Bauer
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 24,46 MB
Release : 2019-10-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0813942551
The Age of the Discovery of the Americas was concurrent with the Age of Discovery in science. In The Alchemy of Conquest, Ralph Bauer explores the historical relationship between the two, focusing on the connections between religion and science in the Spanish, English, and French literatures about the Americas during the early modern period. As sailors, conquerors, travelers, and missionaries were exploring "new worlds," and claiming ownership of them, early modern men of science redefined what it means to "discover" something. Bauer explores the role that the verbal, conceptual, and visual language of alchemy played in the literature of the discovery of the Americas and in the rise of an early modern paradigm of discovery in both science and international law. The book traces the intellectual and spiritual legacies of late medieval alchemists such as Roger Bacon, Arnald of Villanova, and Ramon Llull in the early modern literature of the conquest of America in texts written by authors such as Christopher Columbus, Amerigo Vespucci, José de Acosta, Nicolás Monardes, Walter Raleigh, Thomas Harriot, Francis Bacon, and Alexander von Humboldt.
Author : H. Walter Lack
Publisher : Prestel Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 36,7 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Botanical illustration
ISBN : 9783791341422
Created during Alexander von Humboldt's historic expedition to the Americas and Cuba, these intricate and delicately tinted prints record his revolutionary findings as he traveled through jungles, across rivers, and over mountainous terrain.
