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**Early Explorers: The Age of Discovery**
====Students learn about trade with the Far East in the 15th Century and how restrictions on that trade helped bring about the Age of Discovery. Join Diego as he learns about Christopher Columbus, Vasco da Gama, Amerigo Vespucci, John Cabot, Ferdinand Magellan and other fearless people who helped solve the mysteries of the uncharted world. Grades: Gr. 3 - Gr. 5 Runtime: 20:00====

**Exploring the World: Christopher Columbus and the New World**
====This program examines the life of one of history's most important and controversial figures - Christopher Columbus. Through beautiful photography, students visit important historical sites in Spain, and share in the fear and excitement of Columbus's first voyage across the Atlantic Ocean. Columbus's historical role as the found of Spain's first colony in the New World and as the discoverer of the first reliable sea routes across the Atlantic are also presented.====

**Exploring the World: Ferdinand Magellan and the First Voyage Around the World**
====In 1519, Ferdinand Magellan sailed from Spain with a fleet of five ships to look for a faster route to Asia. During this three-year, 50,000 mile voyage, Magellan died and only one shop made it back to Spain. However, these men had circumnavigated the globe, proving once and for all that the world is round. This program examines the life and world of the great explorer Ferdinand Magellan. By viewing this video students learn many fascinating details about Magellan's life, the times in which he lived, and his famous voyage. Grades: Gr. 3 - Gr. 5 Runtime: 16:49====

**Exploring the World: Spanish Explorers of North America**
====This program takes a look at the accomplishments of the first Europeans to explore lands that are today in the United States of America. The Spanish explorers came to find gold, claim new lands for their king, and covert native people to the Christian faith. This fascinating program was filmed on location at de Leon, Narvaez, Cabeza de Vaca, DeSoto, Coronado, and Cabrillo between the years 1513 and 1543.====

**Exploring the World: The Age of Exploration Begins**
====This program provides an historical introduction to the great Age of Exploration, which began nearly 600 years ago. Through animated maps and colorful live-action images from around the world, students learn how people lived in the year 1400. They discover how new inventions helped make world exploration possible. They learn how Europe's trade with Asia was conducted and discover how constraints on that trade helped give rise to the Age of Exploration.====

**Exploring the World: The Conquistadors and the Aztecs**
====This program filmed in Spain and Mexico, takes a look at how Spanish civilization was brought to the New World. It begins with a look at the tremendous differences that existed 500 years ago between the Aztec and Spanish cultures. Students find out how and why the Spanish came to the New World and learn some of the details of the conquest of Mexico. The program concludes with an examination of the long-term consequences of the Spanish conquests in the New World. Grades: Gr. 3 - Gr. 5 Runtime: 15:24====

**Exploring the World: The Portuguese Explorers**
====The great Age of Exploration began in the tiny country of Portugal. In this program, students visit the site of the famous navigation school founded by Prince Henry the Navigator, and institution that was directly responsible for Portugal's leading role in world exploration. The explorations of the coast of Africa, the Portuguese slave trade, and Vasco da Gama's voyage to India are all presented in this fascinating program.====

**Exploring the World: The Viking Explorers**
====This program teaches students that the Vikings were a people who originated in Scandinavia; became adept at seafaring, warfare, and farming; and had a lasting impact on Europe. By the 900s, they had settled in such remote places as Iceland and Greenland, yet they were able to maintain ongoing communication with Europe through the trade ships that regularly plied the waters between them. Grades: Gr. 3 - Gr. 5 Runtime: 19:48====

**New World Explored, The**
====Prime time news in Europe during the year 1520 was the existence of a new World across the Atlantic Ocean. the Spanish, Portuguese and English had laid claim to some of this territory and France was now eager to claim her share. This expansion of empires would be motivated by wealth, politics and religion. Students will be introduced to the travels of the following explorers: John Verrazano, Jacques Cartier, Hernando De Soto, Cabeza De Vaca, Francisco Vasquez de Coronado, Sir Francis Drake, Henry Hudson and Samuel de Champlain.====