Age of Exploration
Marco Polo's Travels
A young Venetian who traveled all the way to China and wrote a famous book about it.
Fun fact:His journey lasted 24 years before he finally got home.
Dig deeper📜 History
Big moments from long ago
Quick, kid-friendly stories from across time — pyramids and pharaohs, knights and castles, brave explorers, brilliant inventors, and giant leaps for humankind.
Age of Exploration
Leonardo da Vinci
Artist, inventor, scientist — he sketched flying machines 400 years before airplanes.
Fun fact:He wrote his notes in mirror writing — backwards from right to left.
Dig deeperAge of Exploration
The Printing Press
Johannes Gutenberg's machine made books fast and cheap — changing the world forever.
Fun fact:Before the printing press, a single Bible took a monk almost a year to copy by hand.
Dig deeperAge of Exploration
First Sail Around the World
Magellan's crew was the first to sail all the way around our planet.
Fun fact:The trip took three years — and only 18 of about 270 sailors made it home.
Dig deeper