The Good, the Bad, and the The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly??Ugly??

 Columbus’ “Discovery” of the New

World  

& Caribbean Basics

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/images/Caribbean/caribbeanblank.gif

http://wps.ablongman.com/wps/media/objects/579/592970/BlankMaps/World%20Map.gif

Trade Winds & Northern Equatorial Current

Gulf Stream

Westerly Winds

Caribbean Current

Why is it easier to sail from Spain to Barbados, than from Cuba to Barbados?

http://wps.ablongman.com/wps/media/objects/262/268312/art/figures/KISH_12_266.gif

http://www.geocities.com/captcutlass/ship/caravel.jpg

Caravel

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Christopher_Columbus_voyages.gif

Columbus’ Four Voyages

http://www.sbceo.k12.ca.us/~vms/carlton/WorldDivided.jpg

Map showing the Treaty of Tordesillas divide

http://collections.ic.gc.ca/maritime_museum/exploration/images/tordesillas.gif

Map showing boundaries from the Inter caetera & Treaty of Tordesillas

The 1481 Bull Aeterni regis, gave all lands south of the Canaries to Portugal. This Bull confirmed the Treaty of Alcaçovas

IMAGES OF COLUMBUS….

What are they trying to tell us?

What does this mean?

Why is this important?

http://memory.loc.gov/learn/community/images/exploration.jpg

Columbus Taking Possession of the New Country (1893)

http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/cph/3c00000/3c05000/3c05000/3c05062t.gif

The Landing of Columbus (1876)

www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/080_columbus.html

Tobacco label, c1866

www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/080_columbus.html

The Landing of Columbus (1893)

http://historymedren.about.com/library/who/blwwspancolpic.htm

Discovery Channel’s Quest: Was Columbus Spanish, Italian, or Jewish?

http://historymedren.about.com/library/who/blwwjewcolpic.htm

http://historymedren.about.com/library/who/blwwitalcolpic.htm

http://historymedren.about.com/library/gallery/blpxcolumbus.htm History of the World, edited by H. F. Helmolt; published by Dodd, Mead and

Company, 1902.

http://www.oceansatlas.com/unatlas/uses/transportation_telecomm/maritime_trans/nav/images/columbus.gif

http://www.glencoe.com/sec/socialstudies/btt/columbus/images/Columbus_Portrait_1.jpg

http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/images/christopher-columbus.jpg

http://www.centrelink.org/Cannibals.jpg

Image depicting Caribs as Cannibals (there is no proof to support this assertion)