Christopher Columbus Madison P

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Born around Aug. 25 & Oct. 31, 1451 Genoa, Italy

Tutored until 14 years old

Sailed on trading trips

Portugal rejected his request to sail western route

Repeatedly turned down

Life Before Fame

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Sailed Atlantic ocean for western route to Asia

Found Caribbean islands

Found out other humans (Indians) existed

Explored the Caribbean, South & Central America

Linked the Eastern & Western

hemispheres

Main Achievements

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Columbus reaching the Caribbean

The Columbian Exchange

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Columbus:

Hero or Villain? Positive Actions

Tried to simplify trade

routes to Asia

Added to geography

Columbian Exchange

Negative Actions

‘Stole’ Founding Father title

Captured natives for slaves

Diseased people with small

pox, measles & typhus

Native Americans Genocide

Indians being brought to Spain as slaves

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Found gold for Spanish (Gold)

European goods for tribes’ gold

Named seas, lands and became Governor (Glory)

Returned as man how discovered many lands

Converted Indians (Gospel)

Taught Indians to be Catholic through force

The Three G’s

Oct. 12, 1492: with Pinta, Nina, and Santa Maria

Oct. 12: sighted land after 5 weeks

Didn’t find riches, continued to “China”

Nov. 21: Pinta and crew left to explore

December 31: Columbus‘s Santa Maria wrecked

Jan. 16 1493: Arrived at Spain

First Voyage

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First Voyage

Sept. 23, 1493: with 17 ships and 1,200 men.

Nov. 3: crew sighted land and discovered Jamaica

Didn’t find riches, continued to Hispaniola

Conquered Hispaniola then colonized

March 1496: A

Second Voyage

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Second Voyage

May 30 1498: more southern route

July 31: discovered Trinidad, Tobago, Grenada, & Margarita

Arrested and sent to Spain

Was released

Third Voyage

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Third Voyage

May 9, 1502

June: Arrived in Hispaniola

Continued to Explore

July 4: Central America

January 1503: Panama and gold

Nov. 7, 1504: Sail back to Spain

Fourth Voyage

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Fourth Voyage

Back to Spain with son

Became ill

Died from Reiter's Syndrome on May 20, 1506

Valladolid, Spain

Life of a Retired Explorer

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Davidson, James. The American Nation. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson/Prentice Hall, Inc., 2005

"Christopher Columbus." Explorers & Discoverers of the World. Gale, 1993. Gale Biography In Context. Web. 23 Sep. 2012.

Student Handbook Including What Happened When, volume 3, HarperCollionsPublishers

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