Age of exploration and expansion

Duration: 0:16:35

Genre: Educational | Historical

Year Published: 1971

Creator: Coronet Instructional Films: Distributor | Indiana University Audio-Visual Center: Distributor

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Uses an inquiry approach to delve into the question of why European nations in the 15th and 16th centuries were engaged in explorations and colonization in the Americas. Attributes the advent of this period in history to national competition for economic expansion and a growth in individualism. Describes not only the cultural clashes between the explorers and the native societies they encountered, but also the effects of exploration on the Europeans themselves.

Complete Record: , Uses an inquiry approach to delve into the question of why European nations in the 15th and 16th centuries were engaged in explorations and colonization in the Americas. Attributes the advent of this period in history to national competition for economic expansion and a growth in individualism. Describes not only the cultural clashes between the explorers and the native societies they encountered, but also the effects of exploration on the Europeans themselves.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.


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