History / Levels 3 and 4 / Historical Knowledge / First contacts
Content description
The journey(s) of a significant world navigator, explorer or trader up to the late eighteenth century, including their contacts with and effects on other societies
Elaborations
identifying key individuals and groups who established contacts with Africa, the Americas, Asia and Oceania during the age of discovery and exploring their impact on society, including examining the journey(s) these explorers made using internet mapping tools, for example, Christopher Columbus, Vasco de Gama and Ferdinand Magellan
using navigation maps to reconstruct the journey of one or more explorers
investigating networks of exchange between different groups of people
Code
VCHHK079
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