What Was the Age of Exploration? [Paperback]

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.

This book also features the fun black-and-white illustrations and engaging 16-page photo insert that readers have come love about the What Was? series!Catherine Daly has been a children's book author for many years. She has  written many books for young readers, including the Petal Pushers middle grade series. This is her first book in the Who HQ series. She lives in New York City with her family.What Was the Age of Exploration?
 
 
The island of Hispaniola
 
(present-­day Dominican Republic and Haiti)
 
 
The man was inside a barrel. He had to stay quiet and still. The barrel was going to be loaded onto a ship sailing to South America, to a place called Urabá (now Colombia).
 
Why couldn’t the man board the ship like the rest of the crew? He owed a lot of money to people in Hispaniola, and they wouldn’t let him leave. So he had to find a way to sneak off the island. Hiding inside a barrel was the answer.