Transcript COLUMBUS DAY? TRUE LEGACY: CRUELTY AND LEGACY

Bell Ringer 10/10/2011
• Copy this into your
notes:
• Navigation- the science
of piloting ships.
• Age of Explorationduring the 1400s and
1500s.
• Period in which sea
captains and explorers
from different European
countries sailed the
oceans and mapped the
world more accurately
then ever before.
• What do you think this political cartoon
is trying to say?
EXPLORING AMERICA
COLUMBUS DAY?
TRUE LEGACY: CRUELTY
AND LEGACY
First Explorers
• There were several problems with
Columbus’s claim to fame.
1.
Leif Ericson founded a Norse village on
Newfoundland some 500 years before
Columbus even headed this way.
• Leif Erickson told of plump salmon, vines
of grapes and lush grasses of his voyage
to North America. Created a settlement
called Vinland 100 men and women,
livestock, earthen-walled houses.
• They fought constantly with Native
Americans and left after 5 years.
• In the 1960s they found the traces of the
settlement in Canada that completely
changed history forever.
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2. How can you even discover a
place that had millions of
people already living here for
over 14,000 years?!
3. DNA even suggests that
Polynesian adventurers sailed
in canoes across the Pacific
even long before the Vikings.
Portugal
• Prince Henry- from Portugal wanted to make Portugal a leading sea
power.
Prince Henry
• Goal 1: find an ocean
route around Africa to
Asia
• Goal 2: Locate the
sources of gold that
came from lands far to
the south in Africa.
• Age of Exploration: during
the 1400s and 1500s.
• Period in which sea
captains and explorers
from different European
countries sailed the oceans
and mapped the world
more accurately then ever
before.
Three African Empires:
• 1) Ghana
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2) Mali
700 to 1050 in West Africa
Capital: Kumbi
traded gold, salt, cloth, and ivory
replace the Ghana empire around 1200;
Capital: Timbuktu- center of Islamic culture
built large building and universities
(students across Africa came to study at
the universities)
3) Songhai
1500 replaced the Mali Empire
strong influence from Muslim merchants
rich from gold and ivory
largest empire: across a large portion
of West Africa
Names to lands: Ivory Coast, Gold Coast, and the Slave
Coast
Slave Coast – trade in human beings;
Causes
Effects
• European Trade with
the Middle East
increases
• Europeans are curious
about the world
• Rulers of European
nations seek ways to
increase their wealth
• European nations look
for a new route to Asia
• Columbus reaches the
Americas.
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• Spain builds an empire
in the Americas
• English, French, an d
Dutch set up colonies
in North America
• Millions of Native
Americans die from
“European” diseases
• Slave traders bring
enslaved Africans to
the Americas
• New foods are
introduced into
people’s diets around
the world.
•Exploration
of
the
Americas
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• Columbus was dead set on
proving his theory that he could
get to the Indies by traveling
West from Europe.
• At first he asked Portugal to
fund him they rejected him so he
went to Spain.
• After 7 years of appealing for
their support Queen Isabella
consented to give him the
backing for his voyage.
• Set out on August 3, 1492 with 3 small ships: Nina, Pinta, and the Santa Maria.
• Crew became restless as the voyage was not going as planned and Columbus
was not a good leader demanded he turn around and go home. 2 days later he
lands. After 70 days and 2400 miles they had found land.
• On October 12, 1492 he landed on what is now the Bahamas.
ORIGIN STORIES:
Columbus Day
• Invented by the Knights of
Columbus, a Catholic club type
organization.
• In the 1930s the Catholic people
were looking for a hero for their
children to look up to.
• They were finally able to get FDR
to agree to it and in 1934
Roosevelt singed into law as a
federal holiday to honor a
courageous explorer.
Columbus Holiday or Not?
• “… your Highness may believe that this island (Hispaniola), and all
others, are as much yours as Castile. Here there is only wanting a
settlement and the order to the people to do what Is required. For
I, with the force I have under me, which is not large, could march
over all these islands without opposition. I have seen only three
sailors land, without wishing to do harm, and a multitude of Indians
fled before them. They have no arms, and are without warlike
instincts; they all go naked, and are so timid that a thousand would
not stand before three of our men. So that they are good to be
ordered about, to work and sow, and do all that may be necessary,
and to build towns, and they should be taught to go about clothed
and to adopt our customs.”