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The Age of Exploration: Navigational Tools and Sea Routes
Explain the motives for European exploration and the navigational technologies such as the astrolabe and caravel that enabled long voyages.
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Early America: Exploration and the Thirteen Colonies
4th Grade · Social-studies · US-WI-SS
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Analyze European maritime exploration, the Columbian Exchange, and the social, economic, and regional structures of the Thirteen Colonies.
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SS.Hist3Wisconsin Social Studies Standards · 4th GradeWisconsin students will connect past events, people, and ideas to the present; use different perspectives to draw conclusions; and suggest current implications.
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