The California Missions (First Books - Examining the Past)
Publisher: Franklin Watts
Published: March 1998
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 63
ISBN-13: 9780531158937
Subjects: History - United States/State & Local; Juvenile literature; History - Central & South America; Children: Grades 4-6; Missions, Spanish; Juvenile Nonfiction; Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Nonfiction; Indians of North America; History - United States/Colonial & Revolutionary; Missions; California; Church architecture; History
First sentence: In 1493, shortly after Christopher Columbus returned to Spain from his first voyage of discovery, the leader of the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Alexander VI, divided the Americas into two spheres of exploration.