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Reconquista and Columbus
In your notebook
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How Columbus “Discovered” America:
1.The Moors (Muslims who lived in Spain) Islam
2. Pepper (and other spices)
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Moors decided to invade Spain.The Moors were of the Islamic or Muslim religion.
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The Moors conquered Spain in 711
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The Moors built Mosques
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The Reconquista began
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The Reconquista was an 800 year war, between the Spanish Christians and the Moors.
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The Christian Spanish fought to free their country from its Muslim invaders.
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After 800 years of war, the Spanish Christians finally defeated the Moors in the year 1492.
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The Spanish soldiers had to look for new enemies to fight.
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After 800 years of war, the Spanish needed something to do.
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Spain and other countries in Europe, needed pepper to make the meat taste better
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Problem, the pepper only grew well far away in the continent of Asia. Near China and India.
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Price of a box of pepper:
China and India- $ 1
Spain and Europe- $ 60
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Explorers could become very rich if they could find a way to get the pepper to Europe.
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Problem: It took 3 years to get from Europe to Asia by land.
Europe Asia
3 years
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It took 1 year to get to Asia by ships, sailing around Africa
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A man named Christopher Columbus had an idea.
Get to Asia by sailing the opposite direction, west.
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Since the world is round, Columbus thought his idea would work.
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Columbus convinced the King and Queen of Spain to give him money for a trip around the world to Asia.
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In 1492Columbussailed the ocean blue
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Columbus took three ships:The Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria
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Columbus of course never made it to Asia.
He ran into North and South America.
At first he thought he had made it to India
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Columbus thought he had found India, so he called the people he met
“Indians”
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Columbus never found the pepper and other spices…
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However, his “discovery” of the Americas, meant more explorers from Spain would come to the “New World”
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“New World”
North and South America