Which of these facts are true?
Ferdinand Magellan died before his crew completed their journey around the world
One Spanish explorer was welcomed into an Aztec city with gifts of gold
Some sailors got a disease called scurvy that made their teeth fall out
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!
Author
Catherine Daly
A former editor at Disney, Harper, and Simon & Schuster, CATHERINE DALY has written many books for young readers, including the Disney Fairies chapter book Prilla and the Butterfly Lie and popular paperback titles such as Knights, Who Are You Really?, All Aboard Cars, and Daddy and Me. She lives in New York.
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