This resource is designed to assist students in understanding of the Eruopean explorers, who they were, what they did, and what impact they have on the modern world.  Students will watch brief biographgical videos from Bio.com and History.com about each explorer to complete the questions on the graphic organizer.

This resource is designed to assist students in understanding of the Eruopean explorers, who they were, what they did, and what impact they have on the modern world.  Students will watch brief biographgical videos from Bio.com and History.com about each explorer to complete the questions on the graphic organizer.

The web of maritime connections between Western Europe, western and central Africa, and the Americas that made up the Atlantic world is the focus of this section of "On the Water: Stories from Maritime America", an online exhibition from the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. Students will learn how Atlantic-based trade shaped modern world history and life in America. Topics covered are the tobacco and sugar trades, the Middle Passage and the transatlantic slave trade, and the piracy that plagued the Caribbean Sea and North American coast during this period.