And we not stumble upon the first of my favorite topics for this class: Christopher Columbus! Without giving too much away, the Columbus you think you know is not the whole story. While he did land in the Americas in 1492, he probably was not the first European to do so. Also, he certainly did not discover America because there were millions of native people here before he landed. Depending on who you ask, Columbus was either a great and brave sailor whose "discovery" changed the fate of the entire world for the better OR Columbus was a great and brave sailor whose "discovery" led essentially to a mass genocide of Native Americans and the exploitation of an entire continent by Spain, France and England. The most likely scenario is that he was some combination of both.
This week you are going to carefully watch the six videos on this website. Please pay close attention to facts you have never heard before about Columbus and construct your comments around that. In fact, for your comment section this week make a list of the 20 most interesting things you never knew about Columbus before you watched these videos.
1. Christopher refused to stop traveling, even after his death.
ReplyDelete2. He was originally buried beside his father.
3. His body was moved across the oceans 5 times!
4. In 1877, they found his remains on the left side of his monument, not the right!
5.His final resting place was in Santa Domingo.
6. Viking Sailors are said to have come before Columbus.
7. Eric the Red is claimed to have found America before he did.
8. His son discovered Vineland.
9. Columbus also "proved" the earth was round.
10. Aristotle actually proved that the earth was round.
11. His route to Asia was lacking by 10,000 miles.
12. He thought he was in India when he arrived in North America.
13. He "joined" the two hemispheres.
14. In 1502, Book of Privledges was created.
15. There are only 3 copies known to man.
16. It was Columbus' most important book.
17. He wanted to have a record of everything he was promised.
18. His favorite boat was the Nina.
19. His ships were only 75 ft. long
20. His ships had a 6 ft. draft. (160)
What really stuck out to me was the first video. I thought it was funny. How weird it was that he moved so many times after he was dead. Because people now a days stay in the spot that they were baried spot when they are dead. The really weird thing is that they moved him all the way across the ocean from Europe to an alter on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean then he was moved from there back to the first place then moved again. But finely he stayed in that spot and is still there today.
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1. He sailed for the first time when he was 14.
ReplyDelete2. In his lifetime, he went to America 5 times.
3. He took 87 people on his first expedition.
4. One of his three boats was called the Carabella that was shorter than a tennis court!
5. The Carabella was so small that it was extremely fast.
6. He got permission from the Queen to go because she wanted to expand her empire.
7. He first landed on an island in the Bahamas and named it San Salvador.
8. He wanted to go for silk, tea, and spices.
9. It was all about the dough $$$$$
10. He thought he was in India... he thought wrong.
11. Since his first voyage was so successful, the queen funded all his other trips.
12. He helped prove that the Earth is round.
13. I should have realized that he wasn't the first person to America because we have been learning about Indians for 2 years!
14. He had a son!
15. When he had gotten back from his last voyage he was sick and was almost blind.
16. He died at the age of 53.
17. He was technically burried in 5 different places.
18. When they kept moving his body around they accidently moved his son's body instead.
19. Columbus Day is a national holiday.
20. Apparently, my little sister knows more about Columbus than i do.....
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1. No one knows where Christopher Columbus is buried.
ReplyDelete2. He had a son named Diego.
3. Though he's credited for being the first European in North America, but it was possibly the Viking Leif.
4. Christopher had three ships: the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria.
5. His favorite ship was the Nina because it was light, compact and fast.
6. The Spanish royalty, King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, funded Columbus's travels.
7. Columbus landed in an island he called Sans Salvador, which was in the Bahamas.
8. Columbus brought back a shipload of natives, plants, and gold.
9. He was hailed as a hero in Europe.
10. In all, Columbus made five trips to the New World.
11. He took his last trip in 1504.
12. He returned from this trip a sick, near-blind 53-year-old.
13. He died in 1506 at age 55.
14. Columbus opened up the New World to a plethora of explorers.
15. Columbus's Book of Privileges was a book of all the agreements made between the Spanish royalty.
16. The book was important to Columbus because it showed what a success he was.
17. He proved the world was round, even though the Greeks proved it first.
18. Columbus plotted his route to Orient, planning it to be quick enough so starvation and dehydration wouldn't be factors, yet, he ended up on a shorter route to North America.
19. He came up 10,000 miles short do his own original route.
20. Columbus fully believed he was in India, which his why Native Americans are commonly referred to as Indians.
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1. Christopher Columbus had a son maned Diego.
ReplyDelete2. Sailed to America five times.
3. He is supposed to be buried in Europe.
4. His body was moved to the Dominican Republic and back.
5. He proved the world was round.
6. He thought he had sail to Asia.
7. Many people think he discovered America, but he didn't.
8. His son is buried in a cathedral in the Dominican.
9. When he got to the islands he called the people Indians because he thought he was in India.
10. He died at age 55.
11. He went to America numerous times during his lifetime.
12. His plan was 10,000 miles too short.
13. They didn't have accurate maps during his day.
14. He was from Italy, but sailed for Spain.
15. He sailed for India in 1492.
16. He wasn't the first person from Europe to go to the Americas.
17. His ships were the Nina, Pinta, and the Santa Maria.
18. He called the island he landed on San Salvador.
19. Columbus brought back Native Americans with him.
20. His favorite ship was the Nina.
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1. Christopher Columbus was from Italy, but he sailed for Spain.
ReplyDelete2. On his voyages he planned, he wanted to go to India, but found an island and named it San Salvador.
3. He was proving maps of his time were wrong.
4. When he went to sail, he took 3 ships.
5. His favorite ship is the Nina.
6. He brought back Natives.
7. He sailed to what he thought was India 5 times.
8. When he arrived in what he called San Salvador, there were people already in the island.
9. He did not realize his journey was 10,000 miles short of the actual India.
10. When Columbus came back in his last voyage, he was on the verge of death, he was going blind and very sick.
11. On his voyages he brought only 87 men.
12. Many Italians celebrate that Christopher discovered something amazing for his time period.
13. When Christopher died he and his son were supposed to be buried together.
14. Christopher nod his son Diego were supposed to be buried beside each other.
15. We actually don't know where Christopher's body lay.
16. When Cuba won its independence from France they moved both of the bodies back to Spain, or so they thought.
17. He died at age 55.
18. He died in 1506.
19. He went to try to find India for gold but found San Salvador instead.
20. When he went on his adventures, he came back with less and less treasure.
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1.I did not know that he had a favorite ship
ReplyDelete2.No one really knows where he is buried
3.He was originally buried in Spain
4.His body was moved so that he could be buried next to his son.
5.Both his son's body and his was moved.....again
6.When the French won a war, the Spanish went back and got Columbus's body because they didn't want to leave him.
7.He eventually got back to where he started
8.i did not know that someone may have found part of America before columbus
9.His favorite ship was the Nina
10.One of his boats was small. It seems like he liked small faster ships
11.I did not know that he had a son.
12.He expored in canada
13.He made many trips to the carribean
14.Died may 20 1506
15.55 when he died
16.He died in spain
17. He was nearly blind when he came back from his last voyage
18.He tried to scare people into thinking the kunar eclipse was a sign of an angry god
19.He had been abandoned by half of his crew
20.He was aiming to terrify Indians.
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1. Columbus wasn’t the first person to say the earth was round, the Greek and Aristotle did.
ReplyDelete2. When Constantinople fell to the Turks the eastern route to India was gone so Columbus wanted to be the first explorer going left to Asia.
3. Columbus didn’t only want to go for the money but for the fame.
4. Queen Isabella wanted Columbus to go to India for Indian spices and gold.
5. Columbus’ Book of Privileges was an agreement between him and the queen that his scribes wrote for him two days before his final voyage.
6. Today there are three known copies of his book.
7. Columbus, one his 3rd voyage returned in chains because of his bad leadership in the Dominican Republic.
8. Of Columbus’ 3 ships, his favorite was the Nina because it was a caravel that was light, 70 by 20, and could go 60 to 80 miles.
9. It took him 6 years to find someone to fund his trip.
10. Columbus was in poor health and blind when he died in 1506 at the age 55.
11. Columbus’ fastest voyage was his 4th one in 21 days.
12. The Spanish bureaucrats rejected Columbus’s sailing idea.
13. On Columbus’ 4th voyage, he knew a hurricane was approaching by the change in the weather, calm seas, and different currents.
14. Columbus asked to land in Hispaniola before the hurricane but was refused because the governor knew him as a cruel and bad ruler.
15. During the hurricane the 3 ships were broken and scattered causing Columbus to think everyone died.
16. After 60 days of sailing with rotten food and stench on the ship the sailors, who didn’t trust Columbus demanded to return home.
17. The crew gave him 3 more days to find land because they saw vegetation in the water and the lookout mistook a low cloud for land.
18. Columbus used celestial navigation to locate were he was in the ocean by seeing the star, Polaris.
19. Columbus predicted a shadow would cross over the moon, an eclipse, terrorizing the natives who were extremely superstitious.
20. On October 11, 1492 at 10pm recorded seeing a UFO in the water which was disk shape object with bright flickering lights.
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1. Columbus’s body was moved across the ocean several times
ReplyDelete2. Vikings landed in North America before Christopher Columbus
3. A Viking named the country Greenland because he figured people would be attracted to the name
4. “Markland” means “Forest Land” in Norwegian
5. When some Vikings went back to Greenland, they had an extra boat used only for grapes
6. They named that place with all the grapes Vineland
7. October 12 is Columbus Day
8. Columbus Day is a national Holiday
9. Pathaguras and Aristotle figured the earth was round
10. Columbus’s main round for sailing was to get rich and famous
11. He made his own map for trying to get to Asia
12. Most maps back were inconsistent
13. He was the Admiral of the Ocean Sea and Viceroy of any new lands
14. Library of Congress has a book of Columbus that used to belong to the family
15. His book was called Book of Privileges
16. Columbus got 10% of the money gained by any new lands
17. He sailed with three ships but his favorite was the Nina
18. It was a caravel
19. It could also sail really fast and go into waters as low as 7 feet deep
20. Columbus’s flagship, the Santa Maria, was really slow
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1.Columbus refused to stop traveling, even when he died his body was moved several times.
ReplyDelete2.Columbus had a son named Diego;Diego's body was buried next to his father's.
3.Leif Eriksson left Greenland and found an island and decided to name is Markland, which means forest land in Noreigon.
4.Leif and his men found grapes and made wine from them; he named this place where he found the grapes Vineland.
5.President Roosevelt named October 12th Columbus Day, later President Nickson made it a national holiday.
6.Columbus did not trust preexisting maps.
7.No one knows where the exact location where Columbus landed.
8.Columbus had a Book of Privileges where he made all of his promises he made between the king and queen.
9.Columbus made 5 journies to the 'New World'.
10.On Columbus' fist trip to the 'New World' he was on the Santa Maria, a slow old-fashioned merchant ship.
11.The boats he took were not very large, they were about the length of a tennis court and 21' wide.
12.Columbus learned how to sail when he was only fourteen years.
13.It took six years for Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand to bank roll his adventure.
14.On October 12th,Columbus landed at the Caribbean, or the Bahamas.
15.Every time Columbus came back from the Caribbean he had fewer treasures.
16.Columbus' last trip to the Caribbean was in 1504.
17.Columbus found where he was on the ocean by reading the sun and the stars.
18.Even though Columbus was abandoned by his crew, he kept reading where he was with the sun and stars.
19.Columbus predicted when there was going to be an eclipse on February 29, 1504.
20.Columbus terrified the Indians by telling them about the lunar eclipse.
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1.He was buried in Valladolid, Spain
ReplyDelete2.His body was moved 5 times after his death
3.His final resting place is in Santo Domingo so they think
4.Leif Erickson is believed to have "discovered" Canada in 1000 b.c.
5.Leif's father previously had discovered Greenland and he continued west to finish his father's journey.
6.His father's journey began in Norway
7.Leif found what is now Quebec and discovered grapes there which were good for making wine
8.On his first voyage Columbus took 3 ships; his favorite was the Nina
9.The 3 boats were small and durable and were about 75 feet long and 20 feet wide
10.He could travel over 100 miles in 1 day because the ships were so fast
11.Columbus first learned to sail when he was 15
12.It took him 6 years to convince King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella to fund his trip west
13.He made landfall in just 29 days on an island from the Bahamas
14.He returned in March of 1493 with a ship full of natives, plants, and some gold
15.Columbus wrote down a book of privileges which basically was an account of all the money the King and Queen gave him for voyages
16.There is only 4 copies in existence today
17.He made 5 total journeys to the New World
18.Spices were being transported from Asia to Europe and Columbus had to find a way to get to Asia from Europe by boats
19.Queen Isabella gave him the money to expand her empire and get rich quick
20.His plotted coarse to Asia was short by 10,000 miles
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1. 1. Columbus was originally buried in Valladolid, Spain.
ReplyDelete2. 2. He was then moved to Seville, Spain to be buried with his son.
3. 3. His wife then had his son and he shipped to Hispaniola to be buried there under the cathedral.
4. 4. It is believed that his son Diego was moved to Cuba and then back to Seville, and Columbus was left in Hispaniola and that is Columbus’ final resting place.
5. 5. Columbus Day was made a national holiday by president Nixon.
6. 6. Columbus was not the first to believe that the world was round.
7. 7. Columbus sailed to get money.
8. 8. It took Columbus around 2 months to get to America.
9. 9. The exact place where Columbus landed is unknown today.
10. 10. Columbus was granted 10% of what riches he found.
11. 11. Columbus made five trips to America.
12. 12. Columbus took three ships to America.
13. 13. His ship was the Santa Maria.
14. 14. His ships were good for traveling the Atlantic.
15. 15. Columbus left Spain on august 3, 1492.
16. 16. Columbus died at age 55 in Spain on May 20th, 1506. .
17. 17. Columbus first learned to sail when he was 14.
18. 18. It took Columbus 6 years to get Spain to sponsor his trip.
19. 19. Columbus made 5 trips to the Carribean.
20. 20. When Columbus returned from his fifth journey, he was nearly blind.
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1. Originally buried in Valladolid, Spain in 1506
ReplyDelete2. Was later buried by his son in 1526
3. His remains were moved 5 more times after being moved beside his son
4. In 1877 workers found remains of a human and thought it was Columbus but his body had been moved
5. Historians believe Vikings reached North America before Christopher Columbus
6. Erik the red found an ice glacier and named it Greenland so people would go there
7. Erik’s son, Lathe, sailed further west and found land and named it Stone Slab Land
8. He also found land that he named Markland
9. Lathe later reached land that had grapes so he named it Vineland
10. President Roosevelt proclaimed October 12 as Columbus Day in 1937
11. In 1971, President Nixon declared Columbus Day a national holiday and it was to be celebrated on the 2nd Monday of October
12. Pythagoras said that we are loving on a sphere as early as the 6th century B.C. before Columbus
13. Columbus’s route was shorter by 10,000 miles than he thought
14. Columbus at first was going to sail for treasures to sell for money
15. Columbus wrote a compilation of all the agreements he made with the King and Queen of Spain
16. The compilation at the Library of Congress is the one that was kept by Columbus’s family
17. The compilation was put together in 1502
18. A caravel was a very fast ship
19. Columbus’s favorite ship was a caravel
20. Columbus was born in 1451
21. He first learned to sail at age 14
22. Had 87 men with him when he left in 1492
23. Returned to Spain in March, 1493
24. He brought back enslaved natives
25. Died May, 20 at age 55
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1.HIS BODY WAS MOVED FIVE TIMES
ReplyDelete2. USED AN ECLIPSE TO SCARE THE INDIANS
3. LEIF ERICISON WAS THE FIRST TO DISCOVER AMERICA
4. THE SAILORS ON COLUMBUS SHIP LEAD A MUTINY
5. HE FIRST LANDED IN THE CARRIBEAN
6. NO ONE LIKED COLUMBUS
7. ARISTOTLE DETERMINED THAT THE EARTH WAS ROUND
8. COLUMBUS SAID HE WAS VISITED BY ALIENS
9. HE TOOK FIVE JOURNEYS TO AMERICA
10. HIS FAVORITE SHIP WAS THE NINEA
11. HE LEARNED TO SAIL WHEN HE WAS FOURTEEN
12. HE USED A QUARDRANT TO LOCATE HIS QUARDIANTS
13. THE NINA WAS CALLED A CARIVAIL
14. COLUMBUS WANTED TO GET RICH
15. COLUMBUS HE LANDED IN INDIA
16. COLUMBUS WANTED TO ENSLAVE THE INDIANS
17. COLUMBUS HAD A SON NAMED DIAGIO
18. COLUMBUS TRIED FOR FIFTEEN YEARS TO GET QUEEN’S PERMISSION TO GO TO AMERICA
19. THE INDIANS TROUGHT COLUMBUS WAS A GOD
20. COLUMBUS SURVIVED A HURRICANE
1. Christopher Columbus wanted to keep traveling even after he was dead.
ReplyDelete2. Christopher Columbus's son Diego was buried right beside him.
3. The Spanish moved Columbus to Hispaniola, but then the French came took over Hispaniola so they moved his body to Cuba.
4. Then they moved it back to Spain where he started.
5. In Hispaniola Columbus was buried on the tight side, but two hundred years later after moved to Spain the were cleaning and found on the left side parts of Columbus.
6. Columbus's final place was Santo Domingo and he stayed there.
7. Columbus was not the first person in America it was the Vikings.
8. The second Monday is Columbus Day.
9. Columbus just wanted money, spiced where very expensive.
10. Everyone thought he had found India but he did not.
11. His favorite ship was the Nina.
12. The Nina was only 75 feet long which is really tiny.
13. The Nina was only 20 feet wide.
14. The Nina was super fast with only six feet under water.
15. They travel sixty to eighty miles a day.
16. Columbus was 14 when he learned how to sail.
17. It took Columbus six long years to get the queen and king on board.
18. In 1492 Columbus set off on his ships.
19. Columbus did 5 voyages all together.
20. When he got back from his fifth voyage he was nearly blind.
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