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A History Resource from “Quest for Royals and Revolution”
Target Age Group: Grades 9th to 12th
Type of Resource: Non-Consumable

This History Resource

In the late 1400’s, the world teetered on the edge of dynamic change. Columbus’ unbelievable discovery across the ocean from the “known world,” together with the new ideas that came out of the Renaissance, brought the world to a point of no return. Crossing into the 1500’s, the people of the world would find themselves confronted with new inventions, ideas and ideologies. Swept along by climatic and cultural change, civilization was propelled into the modern age. Follow this exciting story, and learn about the people and events that contributed to the advance of world history.

Here are the Section Titles in This Resource

1453: A Tour of Europe in the Pivotal Year 1453
The Props Onstage: The Legacy of the Mongols
The Players Assemble: The Ottoman Empire, the Holy Roman Empire, England, France, Spain, the Netherlands
Raising the Curtain, A Role for One: Prince Henry of Portugal
Age of Exploration: A Few Men Change the World
Religious Controversy: Fervor for Faith & Islamic World
Rise of the Dynastic State
England’s Tudor Family
Tudor England
The Holy Roman Empire: Neither Holy, Nor Roman, Nor an Empire
The Eastern World: China, Japan, and Mughal India
New Ways of Looking at Knowledge
World Changing Invention: The Microscope
New World Colonization: Trade in the Atlantic & Establishment of Trading Companies
England’s House of Stuart
France’s Royal Line
Spain’s Power Declines
The British Empire
Russia’s Romanov Dynasty: Tsars and Emperors
New Ideas: New Thinkers & the Enlightenment
In America
In France
The Industrial Revolution
Reform & Change
The Victorian Era
The Young United States
The Eastern World, Again
Revolutionary Stirrings