The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly?? Columbus’ “Discovery” of the New World & Caribbean Basics
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The Good, the Bad, and the The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly??Ugly??
Columbus’ “Discovery” of the New
World
& Caribbean Basics
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http://wps.ablongman.com/wps/media/objects/579/592970/BlankMaps/World%20Map.gif
Trade Winds & Northern Equatorial Current
Gulf Stream
Westerly Winds
Caribbean Current
Why is it easier to sail from Spain to Barbados, than from Cuba to Barbados?
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http://www.geocities.com/captcutlass/ship/caravel.jpg
Caravel
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Columbus’ Four Voyages
http://www.sbceo.k12.ca.us/~vms/carlton/WorldDivided.jpg
Map showing the Treaty of Tordesillas divide
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/maritime_museum/exploration/images/tordesillas.gif
Map showing boundaries from the Inter caetera & Treaty of Tordesillas
The 1481 Bull Aeterni regis, gave all lands south of the Canaries to Portugal. This Bull confirmed the Treaty of Alcaçovas
IMAGES OF COLUMBUS….
What are they trying to tell us?
What does this mean?
Why is this important?
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/community/images/exploration.jpg
Columbus Taking Possession of the New Country (1893)
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The Landing of Columbus (1876)
www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/080_columbus.html
Tobacco label, c1866
www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/080_columbus.html
The Landing of Columbus (1893)
http://historymedren.about.com/library/who/blwwspancolpic.htm
Discovery Channel’s Quest: Was Columbus Spanish, Italian, or Jewish?
http://historymedren.about.com/library/who/blwwjewcolpic.htm
http://historymedren.about.com/library/who/blwwitalcolpic.htm
http://historymedren.about.com/library/gallery/blpxcolumbus.htm History of the World, edited by H. F. Helmolt; published by Dodd, Mead and
Company, 1902.
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http://www.glencoe.com/sec/socialstudies/btt/columbus/images/Columbus_Portrait_1.jpg
http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/images/christopher-columbus.jpg
http://www.centrelink.org/Cannibals.jpg
Image depicting Caribs as Cannibals (there is no proof to support this assertion)