intro to us & columbus just like rick astley…my ppts will “never give you up” or “let...
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INTRO TO
US & COLUMBUS
Just like Rick Astley…My ppts will “never give you up” or “let you down”
1st INTERACTIVE PPT!
Needed Today:• Jim Bob (southern accent recommended but not required)
• Awkward Columbus
• “Good” Columbus
• “Bad” Columbus
Some Things to Ponder This Semester…
Why haven’t I bin in all of Dunkford’s classes?
Why do Big Macs taste so gosh darn delicious?
Why do I hav te look so great in my mullet?
Why do dem people make me wear shirts in stores?
Why don’t chicks ever call me up?
Oh yeah, and, umm, Dunkerford has a few
more…
JIM BOB
History = Greek word for the Search for TRUTH
Text books can be misleading…
Hindsight is 20/20
And…
“DICTUM OF WU”
Dolla Dolla Bills Y’all!
The Motivation of ALL history
C. R. E. A. M.
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS
Let’s Search for the Truth…
What do we know about him?
COLUMBUS RANDOM FACTS:
Irving Washington
No one knows what he really looked like!
The most Awkward Columbus picture in…
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4
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1
Heeeyyyy!
What did he really do?
2 sides to the story…
THE GOOD
SIDE…• He did something nobody else ever did…”the 1st”
• His trip paved the way for other trips over
• Eventually lead to the founding of the British Colonies and the US!
• 1st cultural exchange…brought music, lit, science, etc to new world.
Who’s the man? I’m the man…
Yo
“Columbus’s conquest can be seen as an
amazing feat of courage & imagination
by the first of many brave empire
builders.”
BUT…
There’s another side to the story…
(the side most text books forget to mention…)
The “Bad” Side…
Upon arrival had this to say…“with 50 men we could conquer
them all”
• Brought disease and racial antagonism
• His men treated the natives harshly– Took Natives as slaves back to
Spain– Punishment = Ears & Noses– Raped and pillaged
You lookin’ at me?
I’ll mess you up, fool
1446 250,000 Natives
1448 12,000
17 yrs later… 200
52 yrs later… 50
By 1650… 0 left*Stats according to Howard Zinn’s People’s History of the U.S.
“Columbus’ expedition can also be understood as a bloody atrocity that
left a legacy of genocide and slavery that endures in some degree to this day.”
MY QUESTION TO YOU…
Does Columbus deserve a national holiday?
Should Americans look at him as a “hero”?
YOU DECIDE
BUT Remember…• Hindsight is 20/20
– “This new history must not judge Columbus by the standards from our own time.
– In 1493 the world had not decided that slavery was wrong. Some Indian nations enslaved other Indians.
– Africans enslaved other Africans. – Europeans enslaved other Europeans. – To attack Columbus for doing what everyone else did
would be unreasonable.”
Search for the truth…Then decide for yourselves!