http://historyexplorer.si.edu/rss?key=resourcesSmithsonian's History Explorer Resources Related To "Jamestown, Québec, Santa Fe: Three North American Beginnings"http://historyexplorer.si.edu/resource/?key=1922http://historyexplorer.si.edu/resource/?key=1922<p>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 <em>On the Water: Stories from Maritime America</em>, 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.</p>Fri, 20 Jul 2012 10:58:14 GMT