COLUMBUS

Who Is This Man???

Who Is This Man???

Who Is This Man???

Who Is This Man???

Who Is This Man???

Who Is This Man???

The Many Portraits of Columbus

The Need for a New Trading Route

Proving the World was Round???

Martin Behaim

• Invented the first GLOBE in 1490-1492

• “In 1492, •Columbus Sailed the

Ocean Blue.”-Traditional Verse

•“In Fourteen-Hundred and Ninety-Three, •Columbus Stole all he could see.”

-Traditional Verse Updated

Columbus “discovers” America?

• Vikings (Norsemen) land in Newfoundland

• Afro-Phoenicians (N. Africa) landed in Americas

•Why does Columbus get credit and is Famous???

Why Columbus gets credit and is Famous???

• Famous invention in 1440 by Guttenberg• THE PRINTING PRESS• Story of Columbus

printed and read all overEurope

•Why did European Countries want to begin colonizing foreign lands?

•Why were European Colonists able to successfully colonize in the Americas?

• “The Europeans were able to Conquer America not because of their Military Genius, or their Religious Motivation, or their Ambition, or their Greed. They Conquered it by waging Unpremeditated Biological Warfare.”

-Howard Simpson

•What effect did European Colonization have on …• Europeans???•Native Americans???• The World???

THE COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE

Bartolome de las Casas

• “What we committed in the Indies stands out among the most unpardonable offenses ever committed against God and mankind and this trade (in Indian Slaves) as one of the most unjust, evil, and cruel among them.”