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Mind Map by Rachel Garvin, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Rachel Garvin
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Christopher
Columbus
- Early Life
- As a teenager, Columbus
travelled around on
Merchant ships
- Born in Genoa, Italy in
1451
- As a teenager, Columbus
travelled around on
Merchant ships
- Beliefs
- He believed East Indies could be reached
by sailing west through the
Atlantic Ocean
- Many maps of the time made
the oceans look smaller than
they actually are, so he
believed it possible to reach
China in mere days
- He believed East Indies could be reached
by sailing west through the
Atlantic Ocean
- Sponsership
- He appealed to the kings of
Portugal, France and
England to finance a
westward trip to the Indies,
but all denied his requests
- King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of
Spain agreed to finance Columbus
- They gave him
three caravels,
- the Niña
- the Pinta
- the Santa Maria
- the Niña
- He had a crew of 90 men
- He appealed to the kings of
Portugal, France and
England to finance a
westward trip to the Indies,
but all denied his requests
- Voyage
- On August 3, 1492, Columbus set sail
- After stopping in the Canary
Islands off the coast of Africa to
restock equipment and to make
repairs, Columbus’ caravels hit the
open seas
- The voyage took much
longer than Columbus
expected, there was no
land, just ocean
- Men were scared
- They were
running out of
food and water
- Men were dying of diseases
- Scurvy
- Typhoid
- Scurvy
- Mutiny was a threat
- Kept two logbooks to ease their panic
- Kept two logbooks to ease their panic
- They were
running out of
food and water
- Equipment
- Log and line
- Quadrant
- Astrolabe
- Log and line
- No land for 4 weeks
- On August 3, 1492, Columbus set sail
- Land Sighted
- Reach land on Oct 14th
he called it San Salvador
- He thinks he
reached Asia
- Confused when he didn't find
riches he expected
- Calls natives Indians
- Confused when he didn't find
riches he expected
- Traded cheap beads
and goods for gold
and unique goods
and animals
- Christmas night 1492,
Santa Maria gets
shipwrcked
- Builds a shack with its
remains and leaves 40 men
behind
- Builds a shack with its
remains and leaves 40 men
behind
- Reach land on Oct 14th
he called it San Salvador
- Return to Spain
- Reaches Spain
in March 1493
- Great welcome
- Brought back pineapples,
parrots, gold and some captive
native Americans
- Reaches Spain
in March 1493
- Return to
the Indies
- He never found the
riches he expected
- Some began to believe
that Columbus had found
a new world
- On his last voyage he was
brought back in chains for
mistreatment of the native people
- Columbus returned to
the new world 3 more
times
- He died bitter and lonely and
because he refused to believe that
he discovered a new continent
- He never found the
riches he expected
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