Monterey Bay Area Missions in California

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By Emily Abbink
Publisher Lerner Publishing Group - (Lerner Publications)
Monterey Bay Area Missions in California
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Go back in time to learn more about the Spanish missionaries who came to California in the 1700s and how the mission system shaped Californias history. Each book in this series examines a region of California that was greatly influenced by missions. Missions introduced in Monterey Bay Area Missions include San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo (Carmel), Mission Santa Cruz, and San Juan Bautista. In this title, you?ll learn about the Native Americans living in the Monterey Bay area before missionaries arrived; why missionaries chose this area and what happened when they arrived; how the missionaries designed and built the missions; what daily life was like at the missions; what happened to cause the end of each mission; and what the missions look like today. This series also includes California Mission Projects and Layouts, which provides directions for creating models of missions. Get ready for Exploring California Missions!

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6269 words6,269 words
64 pages64 pages
Lexile 730LLexile 730L
Published 2008Published 2008

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Book ISBN:

9780822508878

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