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This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's literature. ... Read more

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In this book, Smith has assembled a portrait of the small vessels invented and refined in the shipyards of Spain and Portugal half a millennium ago.He focuses on the advances in maritime technology that made the European conquest of the New World possible.Shipwrights worked by trial and error to make ships that would travel faster and farther, carrying larger and larger cargoes.Pilots developed new methods of celestial navigation and learned the patterns of wind and sea currents.Long voyages taxed the physical and emotional well-being of the crew, requiring new methods of supply and sustenance.In addition to covering these developments, Smith's book shows how ships were built, outfitted, and manned, illustrating what life at sea was like in the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.Focusing on the advances in maritime technology that made European expansion possible, this book will shed lighton a neglected aspect of the European conquest of the New World. ... Read more

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This is the sixth novel in the Elizabeth Stanton series. With the invention of the fast caravel, she embarks on an exploration of the entire world, becoming the first to sail around the world.

They encounter many new civilizations that were totally unknown to the known world. However, always in mind is their mission to track down any surviving Grey Creatures or mantis monsters, who have been inflicting pain and abberations upon the people of Tarra.

Shocking is an understatement for what they find in many of these new lands. The many surviving mantis creatures are still active, brutalizing women. One by one, the explorers rescue numerous people who are in dire need, taking them to the safety of the Santi fortresses and the rehabilitation facilities of the Laird Foundation.

As they nearly finish their voyages of discovery, they again run into more of the mantis creatures. This time, Elizabeth herself becomes a victim of their brutality. Yet, she recovers and continues her fight against these despicable aliens. However, few actually suspect the magnitude of the abberations that these creatures have imbedded within the subconscious minds of the inhabitants of Tarra. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from World of Earth Science, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 1274 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.A comprehensive guide to the concepts, theories, discoveries, pioneers, and issues relating to topics in earth science. Its encyclopedic approach offers entries that are written in easy to understand language. ... Read more

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Michelle Miller, veteran homeschooler and children's librarian speaks and writes on issues of history, worldview, and educational philosophy. ... Read more

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Chapters: Imperialism Ii: Age of Exploration, Tropico 2: Pirate Cove. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 24. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Pentium 133 Mhz CPU, 16 MB RAM, 100 MB Hard disk space Imperialism II: Age of Exploration is a turn-based strategy computer game developed by Frog City Software and published by Strategic Simulations, Inc. (SSI) in 1999. It is the successor to the 1997 game Imperialism. In Imperialism II, the player starts as ruler of a 16th century European country, and must build an empire. Since 2001 Ubisoft owns the rights to the Imperialism trademark. Imperialism II is a turn based 4X game, where you have to "eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, and eXterminate" in order to achieve victory. The game however focus on the economic aspect by introducing the concepts of variable worker productivity, variable terrain productivity, labor allocation, resource allocation and logistics. What should the Merchant Marine transport?The game presents the player with an economic problem that is composed of 3 allocative dilemmas plus the necessity to supply food for workers and military units plus the necessity to finance scientific research. Which semi-finished material should the workers produce?Raw materials which depend terrain improvements to be extracted and on logistics to be transported have to be processed by workers into semi-finished materials. Those semi-finished materials can then be turned into units or workers, used to increase terrain productivity or used to sustain workers of higher productivity. Logistics also depends on semi-finished materials for expansion through additions to the merchant marine and improvements to the road network. On Imperialism II raw materials have to be transported first and then processed, access is not enough. In order to build a unit or...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=3586695 ... Read more

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Traces the life and accomplishments of the sixteenth-century British explorer, examines his relationship with Queen Elizabeth I, and attempts to portray his complex personality. ... Read more

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hooray for the hero!! an honorable with many adventures
It is important to understand from the beginning that Sir Walter Raleigh's mother was burned alive(when he was a child) for being a Protestant. So early in his life he developed a hatred for King Philip and the Catholics of Spain.

The legend of Sir Walter Raleigh begins with his love for the sea. When he started his navy career he moved quickly up the ranks. It was not long before the young handsome gentleman was noticed by Queen Elizabeth I herself, who soon grew found of Raleigh, taking him as her favorite. Being the favorite meant being hated by all the other replaced favorites. He was knighted and named Captain of the Guard. Queen Elizabethh awarded Raleigh with the estate Sharon for his quick thinking making a faile mission look noble and heroic. Even though Sir Walter Raleigh was loyal and true to his queen he did marry her maid of honor. He paid for it by being imprisoned in the Tower but was soon restored to his position by the Queen's side after she realized she needed his leadership and advice. She trusted Raleigh and adored him vey much butI'm not sure if there was ever more there. This book does not give an opinion.

Later on Raleigh wanted to go on a quest for El Dorado. The Queen granted him this. He returned empty handed but then aided his country in a battle against the Spanish at sea.This was only one of themany victories he had over the Spanish. These were the times of happiness for the bright sailor, nothing would be quite so right again.As Queen Elizabeth I grew older she fell ill and eventually died. King James from Scotland then took the throne. He was soon to take Robert Cecil as an advisor, an enemy of Raleigh. It was not long before Raligh found himself in a mess. He was accused of treason, secretly plotting with Spain. The man whp ushed the trial forward to guarantee Raleigh's fall of glory was none other than Sir Robert Cecil.Raleigh was condemned to the Tower. There he grewq elderly and weak but he didn't justlet himself rot away. He started to work medicines and finding cures to sicknesses. Many held him infavor because of his miracle working potions. Prince henry, son of King James, was a hpe to Raleigh. He had won the boy's favor. It was a soon thing that Raleigh would be let out of the TOwe, wehn unfortunately Prince Henry became ill. One of Raleigh's potions was given to the prince but Raleigh said it would only work if the boywasn't already poisoned, as he had been. So, Raleigh's hopes were dashed. He was released finally(under trial) to go on another quest for El Dorado. The KIng thought this was an easy way to rid hmself of his problems with Raleigh because Raleigh was too popular to be executed.On this voyage, he lost his son and the lyalty of his men. His ships disobeyed his orders and broke the peace treaty with Spain. The ships had been under his command, but he had never given the command to attck. Although, many made false accusations stating it was Raleigh who had ordered the attck. Even thought Raleigh had the opportunity to flee to the America's and escape these charges, he was a noble man and chose to return to face his adversaries. When Raleigh unexpectedly returned he was epty handed and Cecil tried him again with treason. His fate would be execution. Sir Walter Raleigh never gave up hope and alwayskept his courage, even to the death. He gave such an astounding speech before his beheading that the executioner wouldn't strikeuntil Raleigh yelled to strike. There was no cheering at the death of such a man. A man who had a key role in developing England's trade, navy,and the New England colonies. His love for the sea could onlybe described by one of his best poems: But love is durable fire In the mind ever burning Never sick, never old, never dead From itself never turning

There are so many wonderful tales of Raleigh's adventures that they alone make this book worth reading. Such a wonderful man, such a wonderful story. ... Read more

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A brisk account of sailing and the spice trades
If someone is looking for a great read, Silverberg had done a terrific job in documenting the voyages of the great sailors and the building of the spice trades through the hands of the Portugese, Spanish, Dutch andEnglish.Make no doubt, they all acted like pirates, except the Dutch hada better of sense of business and thus won out in the end.I highlyrecommend reading this book.

A very readable history
A briskly-paced narrative of the first circumnavigations, including accounts of Spanish, English and Dutch expeditions, to exploit the Americas and, especially, the Far East. A real page-turner(!)

Great historical book
If you like history, the age of enlightenment, and sailing you'll probably like this book.It has a very good account of Magellans expedition (it's the only through one I've read).I wish there were more books like this ... Read more

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Demonstrating that Columbus's voyage was a new step in a centuries-old process of European expansion, Fernandez-Armesto provides a stimulating account of the broadening of Europe's physical and mental horizons in the Middle Ages. He shows how the techniques and institutions of medieval colonial expansion that were applied to the New World made long-term conquest and settlement possible.

A brief introduction analyzes the problems that face students and historians. Then, concentrating on medieval Spanish colonial development, but carefully linking that development to the wider European process of expansion, the author surveys the great areas of expansion in the Western Mediterranean: the island conquests of the House of Barcelona; the "first Atlantic Empire" in Andalusia, its environs, Valencia, and Murcia; the Genoese Mediterranean; and the North African coast.

In the last four chapters, Fernandez-Armesto sketches the course and characteristics of early European expansion of the Atlantic before Columbus and highlights the impact of geography and anthropology on the discovery of "the Atlantic space." The emphasis throughout is on tracing the elements of continuity and discontinuity between Mediterranean and Atlantic worlds and studying how colonial societies originate and behave.

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Columbus as a logical outcome
It is hard to use, in the same sentence, logic and a man who believed both in the basic sphericity of the earth and the existence of the Earthly Paradise.But, all hero-villain dichotomies aside, we shall always be confronted with the fact that it was Columbus who started the inexorable process that produced America as we know it, to the exclusion of all who may have preceded him to these shores.

I doubt seriously that, even today, you can find any book in English containing as much of the process (speaking historically) that produced Columbus.The patchwork of overlapping interests that constituted the Medieval and Renaissance Mediterranean has to be one of the truly difficult places to begin on the globe.Just when you think Venice has emerged safely ahead of Genoa, and the Portuguese have shut the gate on Spain, then everything changes.Too bad the expression "sea change" wasn't yet invented when this book was written.

The African leg of the process has had some coverage, but not any more competently than here.I have some reservations about the claim that gold was the Italian merchants' only motive for trading in North Africa.And this claim is somewhat mitigated by the author's own observation that the attraction of the Canaries was a certain dyestuff easily obtained there.His explanation of
the crucial role of the Canaries, while Morisonesque, certainly explains much.

A chronological list of major steps would have been helpful.This book is, however, a "keeper," and will be for some time to come. ... Read more