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Quick Thinking Define ‘perspective’ and give an example of two opposing perspectives
Who am I?
Christopher Columbus • August 3, 1492 – Columbus and three ships sail from Spain • Born in Italy and sailed for Spain • Purpose: Sail to Asia (India) by going west across the Atlantic instead of around Africa (Portuguese)
Chris’s View of the World What’s the problem with his view?
Was Columbus the First? • NO!!!! • The Chinese? • The Vikings? • The Phoenicians? • Now back to Columbus...
Why Explore? • Motives (Reasons) for Exploration = GOLD, GLORY, GOD • Gold = more land; new markets (people to buy goods); money $$$$ • Glory = power for exploring nation • God = spread Christianity to new lands
More Columbus • Set off to find a quicker route to the West Indies. • Crew was near mutiny when land was sighted. • Landed near present day Bahamas (thought it was the West Indies) • Indigenous people called themselves the Taino (“noble ones”). He called them something else… • Los Indios …..translation Indians….WHY???? • Thus began the move from the Old World (Europe) to the New World (Americas)
Why “West Indies ”? • After Colombus ’ first voyage to the Americas, Europeans continued to use the misnomer West Indies to differentiate that region from the Indies (South Asia and Southeast Asia)
West Indies
Map & Writing Activity • Check out the map below to discover what these ships carried to and from each area. • Use the map to help you answers the two sections on page 1 • When done move to page 2 where you will complete the worksheet. You should use the map from page 1 to complete this worksheet.
Exit Ticket • Imagine you are writing a front-page headline about colonists coming to the New World. What would your headline be? • On a piece of paper write out your headline. • We will go over these as a class and you will turn them into the teacher on your way out of class.
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