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Christopher Columbus

Christopher Columbus. 1492-1503. Trade. Under the Mongol Empire's hegemony over Asia, Europeans had long enjoyed a safe land passage called the " Silk Road", to China and India, which were sources of valuable goods such as silk, spices, and opiates.

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Christopher Columbus

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  1. Christopher Columbus 1492-1503

  2. Trade • Under the Mongol Empire's hegemony over Asia, Europeans had long enjoyed a safe land passage called the "Silk Road", to China and India, which were sources of valuable goods such as silk, spices, and opiates. • With the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks in 1453, the land route to Asia became much more difficult and dangerous. • Europeans needed a new passage to China and India.

  3. Early Life • Christopher Columbus was born in Northern Italy where he found his love for the ocean • When Columbus was 25 he moved to Portugal with his brother and became a mapmaker. He also went on voyages to Africa where he came up with his ideas for a western route. • Columbus presented his ideas to the Portugal King, King John II and was rejected after King John consulted with other experts deeming the voyage impossible • Columbus then went to Spain where he impressed Queen Isabella • Eventually, the Spanish King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella agreed to fund Christopher Columbus’ voyage west to Asia.

  4. Original Map interpretation

  5. Voyages • Between 1492 and 1503, Columbus completed four round-trip voyages between Spain and the Americas, all of them under the sponsorship of the Crown of Castile. • Christopher Colombus was origionally from Portugal, but he sailed for King Fernando and Queen Isabella • These voyages marked the beginning of the European exploration and colonization of the American continents, and are thus of enormous significance in Western history.

  6. First Voyage

  7. The Indigenous People • The indigenous people he encountered, the Lucayan, Taíno, or Arawak, were peaceful and friendly. • Noting their gold ear ornaments, Columbus took some of the Arawaks prisoner and insisted that they guide him to the source of the gold

  8. Second Voyage

  9. Third Voyage

  10. Fourth Voyage

  11. The Four Voyages

  12. Did Columbus Discovey America? • Did Columbus ever reach North America? • If Columbus did not discover America then who did?

  13. Amerigo Vespucci • Amerigo Vespucci was Italian and sailed for Portugal • In 1501 on his second voyage across the Atlantic Amerigo Vespucci discovered that both South and North American were completely separate continents form Asia • He made this discovery by sailing along the coast of South American and near the North American mainland • He named the continents after himself • Christopher Columbus died believing that he discovered a westward route to Asia. • Amerigo Vespucci wrote two letters on his journey describing his encounters with the Native Americans

  14. Vespucci Voyages

  15. Leif Ericson • An explorer from Norway actually sailed to America 500 years before Columbus and Vespucci • Quote from the list of the top ten explorers : • “Leif Ericson, son of Eric the Red, was probably walking the beaches of Massachusetts, naked and five hundred years before you [Columbus]. Eric, an outlaw just like his father before him, made landings from Greenland in Canada and the States as early as 1004 or 1005 AD” • In 1964 under Lyndon Johnson’s precedency Leif Ericson was proclaimed the first European to walk on North American soil

  16. Ericson Voyages

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