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U. S. History

Mr. Nation

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.