Elaborations

• identifying key individuals and groups who established contacts with Africa, the Americas, Asia and Oceania during the age of discovery; examining the journey of one or more of these explorers (for example Christopher Columbus, Vasco de Gama, Ferdinand Magellan) using internet mapping tools, and examining their impact on one society
• using navigation maps to reconstruct the journey of one or more explorers
• investigating networks of exchange between different groups of people