Landmarks: Exploration and Encounters
Exploration and Encounters is a unit of the BBC Schools TV series Landmarks from the 1990s, covering history for primary school pupils.
Programmes about world civilisations of the 1400s, the Ming Dynasty in China, the Ottoman Empire, the Mayans and the Aztecs, and about the European explorers who visited them, broadcast for the 500th anniversary of the explorer Christopher Columbus's first voyage.
The unit includes a two-part drama about Christopher Columbus, which is covered in more detail on a separate page of this site.
Episode List
# | Title | Broadcast |
---|---|---|
1. | The 15th Century World | 14 Sep 1992 |
2. | The Aztec Empire | 21 Sep 1992 |
3. | Voyages of Exploration | 28 Sep 1992 |
Christopher Columbus: The Man Who Dared | ||
4. | drama Across the Ocean Sea | 5 Oct 1992 |
5. | drama For God and for Gold | 12 Oct 1992 |
6. | The Spanish Conquest | 19 Oct 1992 |
Broadcasts
Year | Term | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Channel | Details |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1992-93 | Autumn 1992 | Monday, 1:40pm | Thursday, 11:10am | BBC2 | from 14 Sep | |||
1994-95 | Summer 1995 | Monday, 1:25pm | Thursday, 11:30am | BBC2 | from 24 Apr |
The Christopher Columbus drama was shown separately in summer 1995, on Tuesday and later Monday mornings.
Credits
Narrator | Phillip Cottrell |
Consultant | Elizabeth Baquedano Pope (The World of the Aztecs) |
Series Producer | Peter M. Evans |
Producer | Anne-Marie Goodwin Peter M. Evans Sue Weeks (Christopher Columbus) |
Resources
Teacher's Notes
Video Plus Pack
An 80-minute video containing the documentary episodes.
Fact Finder Book
Explorers and Discoveries
Software
'Time-child' simulation software on Columbus in which players follow Pedro, cabin-boy on the Santa Maria.
Separate 'time-child' simulation software on the Aztecs follows Jade Doll who lives in the city of Tenochtitlan. Both were released for Acorn, Nimbus & PC.
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