{"id":5625,"date":"2023-12-06T13:16:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T10:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/?p=5625"},"modified":"2023-12-17T13:19:22","modified_gmt":"2023-12-17T10:19:22","slug":"new-simulation-voyages-of-discovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/key-stage\/year-8-history\/new-simulation-voyages-of-discovery\/","title":{"rendered":"New Simulation: Voyages of Discovery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/Miscellaneous\/menus\/Year_8\/voyages_of_discovery.php\">This newly recoded game<\/a><\/strong> will teach students about the &#8220;Voyages of Discovery&#8221; of the 15th century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These daring overseas adventures marked the beginning of globalization and European empire-building.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Countries like Portugal, Spain, Holland and Britain competed for access to the riches that came from the spice trade with the &#8220;Far East&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>You will seek your fortune by trying to sail your ship around Africa and then heading off to the spice islands of Indonesia!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Musa_Mansa-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"595\" src=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Musa_Mansa-1024x595.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5626\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Musa_Mansa-1024x595.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Musa_Mansa-300x174.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Musa_Mansa-768x446.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Musa_Mansa-1536x892.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Musa_Mansa-2048x1190.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Musa_Mansa-516x300.jpg 516w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This newly recoded game will teach students about the &#8220;Voyages of Discovery&#8221; of the 15th century. These daring overseas adventures marked the beginning of globalization and European empire-building. Countries like Portugal, Spain, Holland and Britain competed for access to the riches that came from the spice trade with the &#8220;Far East&#8221;. You will seek your&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/key-stage\/year-8-history\/new-simulation-voyages-of-discovery\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5626,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[11,3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Musa_Mansa-scaled.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pAq0G-1sJ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5625"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5627,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5625\/revisions\/5627"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}