Extractions: zJs=10 zJs=11 zJs=12 zJs=13 zc(5,'jsc',zJs,9999999,'') About History Medieval History Home ... Daily Features zau(256,152,145,'gob','http://z.about.com/5/ad/go.htm?gs='+gs,''); Before You Buy Top Picks Product Reviews Articles ... Help zau(256,138,125,'el','http://z.about.com/0/ip/417/0.htm','');w(xb+xb); Subscribe to the About Medieval History newsletter. Search Medieval History The Age of Discovery marks the end of the Middle Ages for some scholars, but there was also significant explorations and adventures made earlier by such explorers as Marco Polo and Leif Ericsson. These directories will help you find more information about Viking expansion, the silk road, early seafaring monks and more. Alphabetical Recent Discoverers Web Pages of information on explorers and exploration throughout history are combined with a massive collection of links, all written and compiled by Andre Engels. A general list covering discovery and exploration throughout history. Web page has archives and subscription information, or send a message to majordomo@win.tue.nl
Resources For The Study Of The Age Of Exploration has written a fine section of his general survey of Bohlander, Richard E., ed. WorldExplorers and Discoverers. new York Macmillan Publishing Company, 1992. http://www.historyguide.org/earlymod/exploration.html
Extractions: Resources for the Study of the Age of Exploration There are a number of very good sources of online information regarding the Age of Exploration. An outstanding multimedia project, The European Voyages of Exploration , has been put together by the Applied History Research Group at the University of Calgary. For the student interested in general survey accounts the 1492 Exhibit is quite good. Andre Engels' Discoverers Web contains hundreds of links to further information and is an excellent place to start looking for hints to further online research. His page on primary sources is as outstanding as it is thorough. Richard Hooker has written a fine section of his general survey of western civilization called Discovery The Beginnings , and the Mariners' Museum at Newport News, Virginia, is excellent as well. On Columbus, check out Columbus and the Age of Discovery from Millersville University (Pennsylvania) and Keith A. Pickering's Columbus Navigation Home Page . Andre Engels has collected an extensive list of links on Christophorus Columbus . You can also read Dinesh D'Souza's 1995 article "The Crimes of Christopher Columbus."
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The Educational Encyclopedia, General History 1000 1550. Discovery and exploration a tip. Discovery, explorations,and the new world a tip. new world exploration and English ambition. http://users.telenet.be/educypedia/education/historyworldexplorations.htm
Extractions: Science Animals Biology Botany Bouw ... Resources History Explorations General Imperealisme Maps Pirates ... World history Explorations 1492: an ongoing voyage 400 year Japan-the Netherlands Antarctic Explorers- James Cook Aztec account of the conquest on november 8, 1519, the Spanish conquistadors first entered the great city of Mexico, the metropolis the Aztecs had built on a lake island British Empire, circa 1937 Captain James Cook: the world's explorer Columbus home page Conquistadors learn about the Spanish conquistadors in the new world Discovery and early exploration of Newfoundland ca. 1000 - 1550 Discovery and exploration a tip Discovery, explorations, and the "New World" a tip European voyages of exploration during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries two nations, Portugal and Spain, pioneered the European discovery of sea routes that were the first channels of interaction between all of the world's continents, thus beginning the process of globalisation in which we all live today Exploration of the Northwest passage Explorers hall of fame First European voyages to Mongolia History and Stories of Nebraska ... Incas and conquistadors how did an army of 37 horsemen and 106 foot-soldiers conquer a mighty empire that stretched over 2,500 miles from modern-day Ecuador to Chile?
Web Resources For Student Projects Web resources for 6th8th Grades. Goes There European Exploration of the new WorldThe site exploration, information about individual explorers categorized by http://www.my-ecoach.com/resources/webresources6-8.html
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Explorers Theme Page goes there European Exploration of the new world Why did Spain and Portugal wantto explore the world? from where a keyword search on explorers will produce http://www.cln.org/themes/explorers.html
Extractions: Explorers Theme Page This "Theme Page" has links to two types of resources related to the study of explorers. Students and teachers will find curricular resources (information, content...) to help them learn about this topic. In addition, there are also links to instructional materials (lesson plans) which will help teachers provide instruction in this theme. Please read our 1492: An Ongoing Voyage This virtual exhibit from the US Library of Congress addresses the following questions: What was life like in the Western Hemisphere and the Mediterranean before 1492? What spurred European expansion? How did European, African and American peoples react to each other? What were some of the immediate results of these contacts? The exhibit also examines the first sustained contacts between American people and European explorers, conquerors and settlers from 1492 to 1600. [An] Adventure to the New World Intermediate students use the Internet to complete an Explorer's Notebook in a simulated voyage to find the North West Passage. This is a two - three week Language Arts and Social Studies unit. [The] Age of Discovery Learn the role that the trade in spices had in the development of Western Europe and the conquest/settlement of the New World in this short horticultural article.
International Investment Conferences NY04 to meet with established producers, promising new explorers and highly in the financialheart of the world, this is as such an asset will create new forms of http://www.iiconf.com/ny04/default.aspx
Extractions: Held annually in the world's financial center, this conference attracts portfolio and fund managers, investment specialists and financiers that, together, control billions of dollars of investment capital. New York is also one of the highest density areas in the US for high net-worth individual investors, and home to many participating industry analysts and Newsletter Editors. This conference, offering opportunities in gold, metals and minerals, is open to both professional and private investors. Participants are typically well-informed, experienced and already successful in resource investment. Conference sponsors represent the entire spectrum of investment opportunities, from new explorers and junior developers to large-scale producers.
World History Compass Home Page South Wales; Journals of his Tours in new South Wales of Franklin resources for theBritish explorer Sir John the most important link on world History Compass. http://www.worldhistorycompass.com/
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Welcome To IUCN - The World Conservation Union To explore new incentives for coral reef conservation and In its fifth annual edition,the world Banks of the report, IUCN Director general Achim Steiner http://www.iucn.org/
Science Resources Charlotte Mason Unit Studies Heart Of Wisdom careers of the men and women whose achievements in invention, science and explorationhave changed the world. The new Way Things Work by David Macaulay. http://homeschoolunitstudies.com/Resources/sciencegeneral.htm
The Americas Discovery And Exploration WHO GOES THERE EUROPEAN EXPLORATION OF THE new world. Web site find out Why explorersExplored the world. links to information on exploration and explorers. http://www.socialresearch.nu/webcites/discovery.html
Extractions: updated for the web January 26, 2004 As we celebrate the Lewis and Clark expedition in December, this month's column focuses on the discovery and exploration of the Americas, especially North America. Visit the History Channel and click on Exploration of North America , to find an excellent overview. Scroll down to the French and Spanish Settlements for additional information and more links. Check out Indians. http://www.historychannel.com/ Based upon the philosophy that you can not study history without looking at the art, drama, music, and literature that influenced the lives of the people during each Period/Age, this comprehensive site contains briefly annotated links, some highlighted, focusing on History and Art. History is divided into People Places Events , and Resources . Art is divided into Art and Architecture Literature and Drama Music and Dance , and Daily Life and Culture . Other links lead to additional informational on the above areas.
History Of The Health Sciences Web Resources Germ Theory Calendar (Requires Internet Explorer®) Historical Health The AmericanExperience new Haven s Hospitals Women Physician Autobiographies world War I http://www.mla-hhss.org/histlink.htm
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NIEHS Kids' Pages Links And Resources EPA explorers Club EPA has filled their Kids Pages Exploratorium Frogs This newexhibit from the Exploratorium offers a peek into the world of Kermit http://www.niehs.nih.gov/kids/links.htm
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Extractions: Index World History Exploration Why did Europeans explore during the Age of Exploration in the 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries? Find out when you join our voyage of exploration along with famous Portuguese, Spanish, English, and French explorers. Hear them tell their stories through interviews, autobiographies, biographies, and journals. It's an exciting way to learn about famous explorers, very different from your social studies textbook. Visit Site 2000 ThinkQuest USA Awards Silver Want to build a ThinkQuest site? The ThinkQuest site above is one of thousands of educational web sites built by students from around the world. Click here to learn how you can build a ThinkQuest site. Privacy Policy
Columbus Links Discovering new Horizons a super website about explorers designed by students. bya basic bibliography of similar themes relating to the world at large http://www1.minn.net/~keithp/links.htm
Extractions: Dr. T. C. Tirado at Millersville University (Millersville, PA, USA) maintains the Mother of All Databases on Columbus and the Age of Discovery , mostly written around the Columbus quincentenary in 1992. With about 1100 (!) articles and papers, this should be the first stop in your Internet research. Dutch historian Andre Engels maintains the very useful Discoverers Web , which includes a Columbus Link Page. What did Columbus look like? Nobody knows for sure, but Paul Martin Lester has several ideas. John Benjamin Wolcott has posted long excerpts from his book on Columbus's early years Uncovering the Real Columbus Judy Baca Romero's Hispanic view of Columbus and the Age of Discovery. If you're interested in what they ate aboard ship , the Castello Banfi winery in Italy has posted an essay by Lucio Sorre' on this topic. My good friend Maurizio Tagliattini has an extensive study of Columbus's early origins in his book The Discovery of North America The Columbus Monuments Page by Peter van der Krogt. Want to know how to build and use a quadrant, like the one Columbus used?
WWW Geology Resources Link List Jewels from the world Wide Web . Discusses the amounts of new minerals demanded Divisioninclude geological investigations, explorations and economic http://craton.geol.brocku.ca/guest/jurgen/grad.htm
Extractions: U NB G eology G rads WWW R esources The University of New Brunswick, Department of Geology, Canada By James Whitehead and German Mirror The following links will take you to a sampling of the tremendous array of geologic resources available on the World Wide Web. To add new page URL's please contact . Thanks! Geology and Earth Science Links Geological Society of America Planet Earth Home Page U.S. Geological Survey ... Structural Geology and Metamorphic Petrology on the WWW USGS CIMRI: Center for Inter-American Mineral Resource Investigations
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World Area Studies Internet Resources WWW Servers U. Evansville Exploring Ancient world Renaissance; Reformation; EnlightenmentHWP world History Gateway USAID Europe NIS (new Independent States http://vax.wcsu.edu/socialsci/area.html
Resource Directory of illustrated pictorial maps exploring culturally significant on Six Continents Category Commodities Subject new York the world , general NYC History http://www.gothamcenter.org/resource/results.cfm?ff=Commodities
