Head your next clean page:

If the note is in ALL italics, you don’t need to write it down…

A 1491 map of the world: what do you notice?

Christopher Columbus Columbus hoped that

by sailing west he could find a short-cut route to the Spice Islands near India

(*note: most navigators at this time were sailing south and east to Asia)

Christopher Columbus After failing to gain

the support of Italy and Portugal, Columbus finally secured the backing of Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand of Spain

Columbus’s mission was to sail west to Asia– he was to bring back items of value and to claim any lands he explored for Spain

Christopher Columbus In August 1492,

Columbus set sail with 3 ships (Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria), 90 sailors, and a year’s worth of supplies

Christopher Columbus

On October 12, 1492 Columbus’s ships landed on an island in the Bahamas

Columbus claimed the island and named it San Salvador (“Holy Savior”)

Believing he had reached islands near India, Columbus pronounced the native peoples “Indians.”

Really, the natives were the Taino.

Image Analysis

Take a look at the painting on the next slide

The artist portrays Columbus as a hero.

Identify as many aspects of the painting that confirm the artist’s opinion of Columbus.

Another perspective on Columbus…

Write at the top of your next clean page: Encounter by Jane Yolen.

Make a four column chart. Write one question in each box:

1. From what perspective is the story Encounter told? Record evidence.

2. What do the Taino give to the Spanish? List.

3. What do the Spanish give to the Taino? List.

4. Write a summary of the book (beginning, middle, end). Include the perspective expressed in the book. Native or European?

The Legacy of Columbus Between 1492 and 1502,

Christopher Columbus sailed to the New World 4 times– he claimed much land for Spain and came into contact with many Native Americans.

The voyages of Columbus changed the way Europeans looked at the world.

European countries raced to send explorers to explore the “New World” that Columbus “discovered.”

Spain, Portugal, England, France, and the Netherlands all sent explorers to claim land in the New World.

If Columbus “discovered” America, then how did America get its name?In 1501, an explorer for Spain, Amerigo Vespucci, sailed along the coast of South America– based on his journals a German map-maker named the land “America”

Post Columbus Map of the World (1507)

the first map to label “America”

The Legacy of Columbus

As a result of Columbus’s voyages, a new era of interaction began between Europe and the Americas

Europeans even began to create settlements in the New World called colonies

These European explorers and settlers took plants and animals with them to the Americas

They also brought back to Europe plants and animals they found in the Americas

This transfer of people, plants, animals and diseases between the Old World and New World became known as the Columbian Exchange in honor of Columbus.

The Legacy of Columbus Title the next page in your notebook: “The Columbian

Exchange.” Turn to page 27 in the paperback atlas. You need to create this map in your notebook—as best as

you can…including:*Sketch New World/Old World continents*Label the continents*Color code the New and Old Worlds*Label the oceans/lightly shade the

oceans blue*List/identify the products that were

transferred*Create your key

Head your next clean page: Guns, Germs, and Steel Divide your paper with a horizontal line. Write at the top: Why were European

diseases (such as small pox, measles, the flu) so deadly to Native Americans but not the other way around?

Write below the line: How did Europeans get the diseases in the first place?

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