Launch Point

This week’s subject: Explorers.

“In fourteen ninety-two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue.” However, the age of exploration and the showdown to colonize the Americas were not limited to one man. Discover why explorers came to the New World, how they traveled to their destinations and what effects they had on the future colonization of the Western Hemisphere. Learn about the age of exploration at he Launch Point Web site: htt://www.latimes.com/launchpoint/