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Age of Exploration Agendas
Age of Exploration Agendas
Age of Exploration Text Set
Age of Exploration Text Set
Articles
Age of Discovery Google Arts and Culture
Atlantic Crossing During The Age of Exploration
A "crowdsourced" world map from the 15th century still inspires today
World's oldest astrolabe found, says shipwreck hunter (newsela)
Whose history matters? Students can name Columbus but not Taíno people (newsela)
Back and Forth Across the Atlantic in the Columbian Exchange (newsela)
Columbian Exchange: Spreading Ideas, and Diseases, for Good and Ill (newsela)
Middle Passage Primary Source Documents
The Renaissance Article - Rethinking the Future
The Renaissance - History.com and Exploration
Videos
The Incredible Age of Discovery Explained
The Silk Road and Ancient Trade
The Columbian Exchange: Crash Course
The Atlantic Slave Trade: Crash Course
The Atlantic Slave Trade: What few
The Spanish Empire: Silver and Runaway
History V. Christopher Columbus
Capitalism and the Dutch East India Company
How Magellan Circumnavigated the Globe
Images
FERDINAND & ISABELLA, 1493.
Columbus at the court of Ferdinand and Isabella on his return from the New World in 1493. Engraving after Victor A. Searles, 1893.
MAP: NORTH AMERICA, 1547.
Map of the eastern coast of North America, from Florida to Labrador, from the Vallard Atlas, 1547.
FERDINAND MAGELLAN
(c1480-1521). Portuguese navigator. Copper engraving by Nicolas de Larmessin, 1695.
MAP: NORTH AMERICA, 1547.
Map of the eastern coast of North America, from Florida to Labrador, from the Vallard Atlas, 1547.
COLUMBUS: SHIP, c1494.
The ship of Christopher Columbus off the coast of the New World. A two-page spread from 'In Lauden Serenissimi Ferdinandi, Hispania[rum] Regis, Bethicae & regni Granatae obsidio victoria & triu[m]phus.' Woodcut and letterpress by Carlo Verardi, c1494.
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS
(1451-1506). Italian navigator. Columbus landing in the New World in 1492 holding the Spanish flag. Illustration by J.L. Beuzon, 1933.
HERNANDO CORTES (1485-1547).
Spanish conquerer of Mexico. Document listing the arms given to Cortes by King Charles V, 1525.
COLUMBUS: DEPARTURE, 1492.
The departure of Christopher Columbus from Palos, Spain, on 3 August 1492 (the presence of Ferdinand and Isabella is symbolic and was not actual). Color engraving, 1594, by Theodor de Bry.
COLUMBUS: SAN SALVADOR, 1492. The landing of Christopher Columbus at San Salvador (Guanahani) in the Bahamas, 12 October 1492. Engraving after the painting by John Vanderlyn, 1800s.
AMERIGO VESPUCCI (1454-1512).
Italian navigator. Line engraving, c1585, by Andrianus Collaert after Stradanus.
BRITISH LIBRARY.
Etymologies. [Detail] Diagrammatic T-O map. The world is portrayed as a circle divided by a 'T' shape into three continents; Asia, Europe, and Africa. . Full credit: British Library / Granger, NYC -- All rights reserved.
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Early Voyages of Discovery and Exploration by Explorer
Renaissance Resources
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