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Explorers

Stat here for a Thinkquest investigation of why explorers wanted to explore!
http://library.thinkquest.org/J002678F/why.htm

Zoom Explorers
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/explorers/

Cybersleuth Kids  has links to other websites or pages on individual 
explorers.
http://cybersleuth-kids.com/sleuth/History/Explorers/

Thinkquest sites are produced by students. This award winning entry provides 
links to information on European Explorers arranged in a timeline.
http://library.thinkquest.org/J002678F/timeline.htm

Another page of the same Thinkquest site considers the reasons for 
exploration and offers links organized by the sponsoring country.
http://library.thinkquest.org/J002678F/welcome.htm

Conquistadors
This wonderful site from PBS contains information on Cortez and Pizarro, 
including accounts from the native peoples they encountered and defeated.
http://www.pbs.org/conquistadors/

You can use this map site from National Geographic to show where your 
explorer went and what lands he claimed.
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/atlas/index.html?Parent=world&Mode=d&SubMode=

This site concentrates on Columbus.
http://www1.minn.net/~keithp/index.htm

Mr. Dowling is a sixth-grade teacher. His world history site has clear, 
simple explanations of Columbus' and Magellan's explorations.
http://www.mrdowling.com/704-exploration.html

Spanish accent marks
http://faculty.weber.edu/tmathews/grammar/compmark.html#MicrosoftWord

Encyclopedia Britannica
http://school.eb.com/

This site will help you to complete a bibliography in Word from the 
information you've written on your bibliography sheets.
http://www.easybib.com/

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