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    Exploring the New World: An Interactive History Adventure
    Exploring the New World: An Interactive History Adventure
    Exploring the New World: An Interactive History Adventure
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    Exploring the New World: An Interactive History Adventure

    By Melody Herr

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    Describes the exploration of North America in the times of explorers Christopher Columbus, Francisco Vazquez de Coronado, and Sieur de La Salle. The reader's choices reveal the historical details from the perspective of a sailor or a Taino Indian during Columbus' voyage in 1492, a Spanish adventurer or a Zuni Indian during Coronado's 1540 expedition, and a member of Sieur de La Salle's expedition down the Mississippi River in 1682.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCapstone Young Readers
    Release dateAug 1, 2016
    ISBN9781515743224
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      Book preview

      Exploring the New World - Melody Herr

      orientation.

      ABOUT YOUR ADVENTURE

      YOU live in an era of exploration. Will you explore the New World with European adventurers — or will you protect it with the American Indians who have always called it home? How will your choices impact your life?

      In this book, you’ll explore how the choices people made meant the difference between life and death. The events you’ll experience happened to real people.

      Chapter One sets the scene. Then you choose which path to read. Follow the links at the bottom of each page as you read the stories. The decisions you make will change your outcome. After you finish one path, go back and read the others for new perspectives and more adventures. Use your device's back buttons or page navigation to jump back to your last choice.

      YOU CHOOSE the path you take through history.

      CHAPTER 1

      Discoveries

      It is a time of great discoveries. For Europeans, North America and South America are the New World. Explorers set out to claim land, spread their religion, and find riches.

      Due to these European visitors, life for the native people changes forever. Explorers bring new words and a new religion to the American Indians. They bring unfamiliar tools, plants, and animals. They also bring terrible diseases.

      Early European explorers traveled several months across the Atlantic Ocean to reach the New World.

      Your adventure into the New World will introduce you to Christopher Columbus, Francisco Vázquez de Coronado, and René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle. Each one explores a different part of the New World in a different century. Each meets a different group of native people.

      Columbus sails from Spain in 1492. Spices, silk, and jewels from Asia bring high prices in Europe. But traveling eastward across Europe to Asia takes many months and is very expensive. Columbus believes he can find a cheaper shortcut by sailing west across the Atlantic Ocean. But Columbus doesn’t know that North and South America lie in the way.

      In 1540, stories about the Seven Cities of Cíbola spread through Spain’s American colonies. Coronado hopes to find fame and riches by searching for these cities made of gold. But he doesn’t have a map.

      In December 1681, La Salle sets out from Lake Michigan. He plans to canoe down the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico to claim land for the king of France. He’s ready to face wild animals, unfriendly Indians, and other unknown dangers.

      To meet Columbus, press here.

      To meet Coronado, press here.

      To meet La Salle, press here.

      CHAPTER 2

      Christopher Columbus

      Today is October 12, 1492. Three ships sail toward a string of islands. Columbus and his sailors think they’ve reached the Indies, their name for East Asia. In fact, they’re close to North America.

      Christopher Columbus led three ships, the Niña, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria, across the Atlantic Ocean in 1492.

      The American Indians living on these islands call themselves the Tainos. They have never seen ships or met Europeans.

      Both groups of people are about to meet. Neither group knows it, but their lives will change forever.

      To be a sailor on the Santa Maria, press here.

      To be a Tainos islander, press here.

      At midnight, you stand on the deck of the Santa Maria. You squint, trying to see into

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