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The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly??
Columbus’ “Discovery” of the New
World
&
Caribbean Basics
http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/images/Caribbean/caribbeanblank.gif
Why is it easier to sail from Spain to Barbados, than from Cuba to
Barbados?
Gulf Stream
Westerly
Winds
Trade Winds & Northern
Equatorial Current
Caribbean Current
http://wps.ablongman.com/wps/media/objects/579/592970/BlankMaps/World%20Map.gif
http://wps.ablongman.com/wps/media/objects/262/268312/art/figures/KISH_12_266.gif
Caravel
http://www.geocities.com/captcutlass/ship/caravel.jpg
Columbus’ Four Voyages
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Christopher_Columbus_voyages.gif
Map showing the Treaty of Tordesillas
divide
http://www.sbceo.k12.ca.us/~vms/carlton/WorldDivided.jpg
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
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/maritime_museum/exploration/images/tordesillas.gif
IMAGES OF COLUMBUS….
What are they trying to tell us?
What does this mean?
Why is this important?
Columbus Taking Possession of the New Country (1893)
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/community/images/exploration.jpg
The Landing of Columbus (1876)
http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/cph/3c00000/3c05000/3c05000/3c05062t.gif
Tobacco
label,
c1866
www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/080_columbus.html
The
Landing of
Columbus
(1893)
www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/080_columbus.html
Discovery Channel’s Quest: Was Columbus
Spanish, Italian, or Jewish?
http://historymedren.about.com/library/who/blwwspancolpic.htm
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
Image depicting Caribs as Cannibals (there is no proof to
support this assertion)
http://www.centrelink.org/Cannibals.jpg