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Loading... The World Made New: Why the Age of Exploration Happened and How It Changed… (edition 2007)by Marc Aronson, John W. Glenn
Work detailsThe World Made New: Why the Age of Exploration Happened and How It Changed the World by Marc Aronson
None.  beckytillett | Apr 22, 2013 |  This book describes how the world we know today began in 1492 and how it has been constantly changing since then. It is a timeline of the Age of Exploration. I really like how sophisticated the text is and how it strays away from common terms such as "discoverers" and "natives". The book is creatively illustrated with maps, paintings, and prints and is one that people will enjoy for pleasure as well as research. (  ) akrause | Nov 26, 2012 | I was super impressed with this book. As a historian, I found it to be very satisfying to read an informational book for children that gave proper information, all while keeping the information simple and understandable. When it comes to history, it is really easy to lose listeners when one starts to sound "too academic." the basic gist of this book is identifying and examining the effects of the age of exploration, and in turn, how those events changed the course of world history. The book didn't even focus entirely on Eurocentric perspectives! (although that was the majority of the book...) Honestly though, that is not a terribly big problem for a young reader just breaking into historical study so I chose to ignore it. This book covered war, migration, religion, and disease. It really painted a good picture of what the columbian exchange was, and what it meant to the world. I would highly recommend this book to young reader. ( ) Meerkat4 | Apr 24, 2012 | This book provides an interesting demonstration of organization. Divided into three major sections, Causes, What Happened, and Consequences, subtopics and details are easily located. Marc Aronson and John Glenn make a point to provided information from a global perspective as opposed to a European-centered discussion. Although the text is a bit dry, the illustrations, specifically the timelines, break up the text nicely. This text would be an excellent resource in middle and high school Social Studies classrooms, but would also make an excellent example in classrooms studying ways to organize text. (  ) kmcinern | Sep 27, 2011 | This book is about how the Americas were founded. It tells about how Columbus went about discovering them to what all happened in the mean time. I thought this book was a very informational book about how the americas were found. I'm not a big history buff so I got a little bored reading this book. But it does give alot of good facts to what happened around that time. In the classroom this would be a good book to use when the students are studying Columbus and when the New World was found. I would have the students write a short book report after we read this book and sudied this. (  ) ShalynAdams | Jul 24, 2010 | no reviews | add a review
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Students often are removed from anything outside of their immediate surroundings. This book would lend itself well to an exploration of civilizations and how the world as we know it came to be. Students could read parts or all of the book to gain a better understanding of how people changed with world, and the various timelines and captioned pictures help summarize what the book is reporting. This book would also be a great resource for non-fiction text feature studies. (