Grade Range: 4-12Resource Type(s): Primary Source, Reference MaterialsDate Posted: 5/26/2009
Students will learn how Atlantic-based trade shaped modern world history and life in America, and explore the web of maritime connections between Western Europe, western and central Africa, and the Americas that made up the Atlantic world in this section of On the Water: Stories from Maritime America, an online exhibition. 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.
Multimedia instruction, Museum education, Thematic approach
In the 15th century, decades before they sailed into the Caribbean, Spanish merchants, captains, ...
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While visiting a whaling exhibit at the National Museum of Natural History, Emma suddenly finds h...
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