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Places
Bahama islands
West Indies
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People
Christopher Columbus
King Ferdinand
Queen Isabella
Amerigo Vespucci
Vasco Nunez de Balboa
Ferdinand Magellan
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Vocabulary
Expedition
Colony
Columbian Exchange
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Columbus and
the Taino
Columbus first landed in 1492
at an island called
Guanashani in the West Indies
The group of people there
were called the Taino
Columbus was looking for a
better and faster way to get to
the Indies
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Columbus and
the Taino
The Indies was a part of Asia
rich with gold, spices, and
other resources
The only way to get to the
Indies during this time was by
way of the difficult land route Silk Road
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Columbus and
the Taino
Columbus decided to try a
route across the Atlantic
Ocean
King Ferdinand and Queen
Isabella decided to fund the
expedition
Expedition: a journey made for
a special purpose
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Columbus and
the Taino
On August 3, 1492, Columbus set
sail with three ships – the Nina,
Pinta, and Santa Maria
On October 12, 1492, land was
sighted from the Pinta
“At two hours after midnight, the Pinta
fired a cannon, my prearranged signal for
the sighting of land.”
Columbus claimed the land for the
Spanish king and queen
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Columbus and
the Taino
Historians believe that
Columbus may have reached
one of the Bahama Islands
Columbus thought he was in
Indies so he called the people
“Indians”
The islands of this region have
become known as the West
Indies
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The Columbian
Exchange
Columbus led three more
expeditions to the Americas
The second trip, in 1493, he
took 17 ships loaded with
settlers, animals, and other
supplies
Spain also decided to start a
colony on this second trip
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The Columbian
Exchange
Colony: a settlement far from
the country that rules it
Before long, thousands of
European settlers were living
in colonies throughout the
West Indies
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The Columbian
Exchange
This was the beginning of the
Columbian Exchange.
Columbian Exchange: a
movement of people, animals,
plants, diseases, and ways of
life between the Eastern and
Western Hemisphere
See page 136 in the book for a
diagram of the Exchange
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The Columbian
Exchange
The changes helped the
people of Europe, Africa, Asia,
and the Americas
The Europeans brought
diseases that killed many of
the Native Americans
Small Pox
Measles
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The Columbian
Exchange
As the European colonies
prospered, the Native peoples’
way of life began to change
Natives were forced to work on
large farms growing sugarcane
and other crops
Sugarcane was used to make
sugar – made huge profits
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The Columbian
Exchange
The Spanish want to bring
Christianity to the native
people
The natives were forced to
give up their own beliefs
The native people lost most of
their ways of life
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Fact File
By the 1500’s , the Spanish
realized that the islands
weren’t a part of Asia
This was a new world waiting
to explored and settled
But millions were already
calling the land home
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Fact File
Christopher Columbus (1451-1506)
Born in Italy
Led four voyages between 1492 and 1504
Amerigo Vespucci (1454-1512)
Born in Italy
Sailed to the eastern coast of South
America in 1501
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Fact File
Vasco Nunez de Balboa (1475-1519)
Born in Spain
In 1513 crossed the Isthmus of Panama and
reached the Pacific Ocean
Ferdinand Magellan (about 1480-1521)
Born in Portugal
Led the first expedition around the world,
which began in 1519 and ended without him
in 1522
He was killed during the voyage
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The Impact of
Columbus
Columbus showed Europeans
the way to the Americas
The land was named after
explorer, Amerigo Vespucci
Vespucci was the first to call
the Americas the “new world”
Many more explorers follow
Columbus and Vespucci
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The Impact of
Columbus
Some explorers came for the
land and riches
They conquered mighty native
tribe to get the land and riches
Explorers came from Spain,
Portugal, England, France,
Sweden, and the Netherlands
by early 1600’s
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The Impact of
Columbus
Some of these countries
fought among themselves and
against natives for control of
the land in the Western
Hemisphere
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European
Exploration
Even the most educated knew
very little about the world
outside of Europe in the
1400’s
They had no idea of how wide
the Atlantic Ocean was
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European
Exploration
Astrolabe: used to measure
latitude on a voyage
Vespucci was the first to
realize that America was a
separate continent and not a
part of Asia
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European
Exploration
Columbus promised to bring
back gold to Spain.
The gold Columbus returned
to Spain was used to make
coins
Columbus originally traveled
on the Santa Maria until it was
wrecked – then he traveled on
the Nina
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