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Polun Young

Harvey Luhrman MacWilliams McMonagle Nkere Onolaja

Cerasoli Clark Del Bene Delanois Finnegan Gigliotti

Ballentine Barbour Breiner Brown

1.5: Early European Explorers

Essential Questions:•Why were Europeans able to travel to the New World in the 15th Century?

• What did European Explorers encounter in the New World?

•Was Columbus’ voyage a success?

Lesson Examen

• What I know about European Explorers…

• What I would like to know more about…

• What I will learn about European Explorers…

A navigator (p.49)

Definition:____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Historical Examples:____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Map: Europe, Africa, and Southwestern Asia in 1500

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Map: Atlantic Winds and Islands

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A caravel (p.49)Definition:____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Historical Examples:____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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Map: Major Transatlantic Explorations, 1000-1587

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Christopher ColumbusWho:___________________________________________________________________________________________________

What:___________________________________________________________________________________________________

When:__________________________________________________________________________________________________

Where:__________________________________________________________________________________________________

Why Significant?_____________________________________

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Christopher Columbus

WHO – A Genoese sailor

WHAT – Credited with “discovering” the New World. (Native American Indians, the Taino, were already living there.)

WHEN – arrives at San Salvador on Oct. 12, 1492

WHERE – He left Spain and “discovered” the islands of San Salvador, the Bahamas, Cuba, and Hispaniola.

WHY - He was looking for a route across the Atlantic to trade with Asia. Spain sought “Gold, Land, and Religion” in the lands he found.

http://garnet.acns.fsu.edu/~cac02m/ChristopherColumusTask2.htm

Was Columbus’ voyage a success?

• According to Columbus?

• According to Queen Isabella?

•  According to the Taino? 

Bartolomé de las Casas, Bishop of Chiapas - 1542New Spain was discovered in 1517. …During the 12 years {from 1518 to 1530}

the Spanish killed more than four million men, women, and children with swords and lances, and by burning people alive…. This does not count those who have died, and continue to0 die every day, from the slavery and oppression that the Spanish impose….

Among other massacres perpetrated by the Spanish was one that took place in Cholula, a city with thirty thousand inhabitants. Dignitaries and priests from the city and the surrounding countryside greeted the Spanish with great solemnity and respect, and escorted them into the city and lodged them in the homes of the local nobility. The Spanish decided to stage a massacre – or a “chastisement” as they call it – in order to terrorize the population.

To accomplish this, the Spanish summoned the local dignitaries. As soon as they arrived to hold talks with the Spanish commander, they were taken captive and had no opportunity to warn others. Then the Spanish demanded five to six thousand Indians to carry their loads. ….Once these poor wretches assembled in the courtyard, guards blocked the gates with the Spanish soldiers slaughtered the Indians with swards and lances.

The pretext under which the Spanish invaded these areas, massacred their harmless inhabitants, and depopulated the country was to make the Indians subjects of the king of Spain.

The fate of the Taino…

Columbus’ Voyages

SKILL - CRITICAL THINKING:CAUSES/EFFECTS of Columbus’ Voyages

HW: Chapter 2, Section 1

READ AND DO VOCAB

QUIZ

1.The inhabitants of the island Columbus encountered were the T_____ people.

2.Christopher Columbus claimed Hispaniola for what country?

3.The Treaty of Tordesillas divided the New World between Spain and P________.

4.The king who created a school for navigation was __________ the Navigator.

5.The new type of sailing ship that enabled better navigation against the wind was called __________.