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History^399 FIND OUT MORE. Christianity 288 • Printing 339 Reformation The Reformation was a Christian movement of the 1500s. It ...

400 History People have always set out to discover new lands and oceans. The greatest age of world exploration began in the 15th ...

FIND OUT MORE. Mapping 220–221 • Mediterranean Seafarers 374 NAVIGATION Navigation is any method used to find one’s way or hold ...

402 History Incas The Inca people lived in the Andes mountains of Peru. Between the 12th century and 1531 they conquered an empi ...

Wings like an eagle’s are fixed to the arms Aztecs The Aztec, or Mexica, people founded a powerful empire that ruled Mexico from ...

404 History FIND OUT MORE. Monarchy 410 • Reformation 399 Globe suggests England’s growing role overseas CHURCH OF ENGLAND Henry ...

History^405 EL DORADO El Dorado means “the golden one” – it is the Spanish name for a mythical land in South America, said to be ...

406 History English Civil War From 1642 to 1648 people in the British Isles were split by a war between King Charles I and Parli ...

History^407 FIND OUT MORE. Gupta India 379 • Mauryan India 379 1 MUGHAL MINIATURE This painting of about 1590 shows Akbar’s pala ...

The lands of North America were originally occupied by a wide variety of American Indian peoples, each with their own language a ...

FIND OUT MORE. American Revolution 414 • Indian Wars 417 History^409 From the 16th to 18th century, European nations invaded and ...

410 History FIND OUT MORE. English Civil War 406 • Samurai 392 • Tudor Age 404 1 HABSBURG 1273–1918 The Habsburgs ruled Austria ...

History^411 FIND OUT MORE. Chemistry 162 • The Enlightenment 416 • Science 154 WHO DISCOVERED HOW BLOOD CIRCULATES? In 1597, Eng ...

412 History WHY DID CHANGES TAKE PLACE IN FARMING? At this time there was a new interest in science and technology. Many old cra ...

History^413 Iron chains could be fixed around necks 4 SLAVE CHAINS or ankles Slaves were transported to the Americas in chains. ...

414 History WHO CALLED FOR FREEDOM? The 1776 Declaration of Independence was issued in Philadelphia, in the name of John Hancock ...

FIND OUT MORE. Monarchy 410 • Napoleonic Wars 416 History^415 HOW MANY PEOPLE DIED? During the Reign of Terror (1793–1794), abou ...

4 A NEW RELIGION? In 1794, Robespierre organized a festival of the Supreme Being. Although he was not an atheist, he disliked th ...

FIND OUT MORE. American Indians 408 History^417 FIND OUT MORE. Canada, Alaska, and Greenland 224–225 WHAT WAS THE TRAIL OF TEARS ...

418 History Industrial Revolution The Industrial Revolution changed the way things were made as new machines invented in the 170 ...