The Age of Exploration?CKHG Reader (Core Knowledge History and Geography)

Core Knowledge Foundation

ISBN 10: 1683800648 / ISBN 13: 9781683800644

Published by Core Knowledge Foundation, 2017

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Seller Inventory # 1683800648-4-36771025

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Age of Exploration?CKHG Reader (Core Knowledge History and Geography)
• Publisher: Core Knowledge Foundation
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1683800648
• ISBN 13: 9781683800644
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Fair
• Weight: 11 ounces

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Synopsis

From the CORE KNOWLEDGE FOUNDATION, which brought you the popular “What Your ___ Grader Needs to Know” series. THE AGE OF EXPLORATION introduces students to European exploration and trade from 1400 to the 1600s. Students learn about motivations for exploration, encounters with indigenous peoples, and the early slave trade. Specific explorers introduced include Bartolomeu Dias, Vasco de Gama, Pedro Cabral, Christopher Columbus, Ferdinand Magellan, Vasco Núñez de Balboa, John Cabot, Sir Francis Drake, Jacques Cartier, Samuel de Champlain, and Henry Hudson. Paperback. 104 pages. ** Part of the CORE KNOWLEDGE HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY (CKHG) series in world and American history and geography, integrating topics in civics and the arts. CKHG books offer engagingly written text with many color illustrations, maps, vocabulary sidebars, and a glossary. Related materials (Teacher Guides and Timeline Cards) are also published by the Core Knowledge Foundation. In general, CKHG books are appropriate for young readers from the upper elementary grades through middle school.