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Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
During the European quest to conquer the New World" of the Americas in the 16th century, Spain was no exception. This text shines a spotlight on the story of the Spanish fighter-turned-explorer, the conquistador. Comprehensive coverage is given to what it meant to be a conquistador as well as the conquistador's goals-gold, God, and glory. In this title, the reader is taken past the initial phase of land discovery into a thought-provoking exploration...
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Series
Conqueror volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 24
Description
Genghis Khan was born Temujin, the son of a khan, raised in a clan of hunters migrating across the rugged steppe. Shaped by abandonment and betrayal, Temujin endured, driven by a singular fury: to survive in the face of death, to kill before being killed, and to conquer enemies who could come without warning from beyond the horizon. Through a series of courageous raids, Temujin's legend grew until he was chasing a vision: to unite many tribes into...
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"Born into a poor family in Spain, Ines, a seamstress, finds herself condemned to a life of hard work without reward or hope for the future. It is the sixteenth century, the beginning of the Spanish conquest of the Americas, and when her shiftless husband disappears to the New World. Ines uses the opportunity to search for him as an excuse to flee her stifling homeland and seek adventure. After her treacherous journey takes her to Peru, she learns...
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Pub. Date
2000.
Description
Following in the footsteps of the Spanish adventurers, filmmaker Wood retraces the path of the conquistadors from Amazonia to Lake Titicaca, and from the deserts of North Mexico to the heights of Machu Picchu. As he travels the same routes as Hernan Cortés, and Francisco and Gonzalo Pizarro, Wood describes the events that accompanied the epic sixteenth-century Spanish conquest of the Aztec and Inca empires. He also follows parts of Orellana's extraordinary...
10) Genghis Khan
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Description
Traces the life of the chief of a small Mongol tribe who established a vast empire from Peking to the Black Sea in the twelfth century.
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Delves into the dramatic and harrowing early years of the ruler who was born as Temudgin in 1162. Follows Temudgin from his perilous childhood to the battle that sealed his destiny. Shows the future conqueror and revealing him not as the evil brute, but as an inspiring, fearless and visionary leader.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"A sweeping, authoritative history of 16th-century Spain and its legendary conquistadors, whose ambitious and morally contradictory campaigns propelled a small European kingdom to become one of the formidable empires in the world "The depth of research in this book is astonishing, but even more impressive is the analytical skill Cervantes applies. . . . [He] conveys complex arguments in delightfully simple language, and most importantly knows how...
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Pub. Date
2007
Description
From the publisher. Tamerlane (1336-1405) -- the Tartar successor to Genghis Khan -- ranks with Alexander the Great as one of the world's greatest conquerors. His armies were ferocious, feared throughout Asia, Africa, and Europe. They blazed through Asia like a firestorm, razing cities, torturing captives, and massacring enemies. Anyone who dared defy Tamerlane was likely decapitated, and towers of bloody heads soon became chilling monuments to his...
16) Conquistadors
Pub. Date
[2004], ©2001
Description
Michael Wood follows in the footsteps of some of history's greatest Spanish conquistadors, relating the adventures of Hernan Cortes, Francisco and Gonzalo Pizarro, Cabeza de Vaca, and others in Mexico, Peru, the Amazon, and America.
19) Hernan Cortes
Author
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
This book describes the life of Hernan Cortes, a Spanish explorer who defeated the Aztecs in Mexico.