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The causes of Christopher Columbus’s voyage's

The key events The results

THE CAUSES OF HIS VOYAGE’S

1. Europeans needed to find a new route to the spice islands and to avoid war countries .

2. They saw this as an opportunity to explore and claim new land .

3. They also saw it as an opportunity to spread Christianity .

4. There were myths and legends about places in Africa made out of gold and they wanted to claim this gold for the king and queen .

5. They wanted to map out the world better and explore more of the world .

THE CAUSES OF HIS VOYAGES

6. He wanted to show people that the world not flat .

7. He promised the king and queen herbs , spices and gold .

8. Europe was running out of land to conquer and livestock to eat .

9. On his second voyage he went back to rescue his men and search for more gold .

KEY EVENTS

o King Ferdinand and queen Isabella of Spain funded him on his voyage .

o They gave him 3 ships the Nina , the Pinta and the Santa Maria and 80 -90 men to serve as crew members on his ships .

o He set sail on the 3rd of August 1492 .o He found land on the 12th of October 1492 . o He thought he was in Asia and named the

area the Indies and called the inhabitants Indians .

KEY EVENTS o At first the native Americans were

pleased to see the visitors as Columbus gave them cheep presents and bells , but he also claimed their land for Spain !!!

o On Christmas night 1493 the Santa Maria was wrecked it had hit a reef .Columbus left 40 men behind in a makeshift settlement on Hispaniola ( present-day Haiti and the Dominic Republic ) , while he returned to Spain .

KEY EVENT

o On his second voyage (1493-96) he returned to Hispaniola with 17 ships and over 1000 settlers .

o His third voyage (149-96) ended in disaster when he was sent back to Spain in chains .He had quarrelled with the governor of Hispaniola .

o During his fourth voyage (1502-04) he warned a different governor of Hispaniola about a hurricane , however the governor did not listen and 24 ships were lost . Columbus regarded his fourth voyage as his greatest .

KEY EVENT

o People from Europe sailed to America to start colonies. Some wanted to make the natives become Christians

o They began to treat the native Americans badly ,they made many of them work as slaves .

o Columbus sailed to America for the fourth time in 1502 . He was still hoping to land in China . This time he explored central America . His ships were too leaky to sail home , so he had to wait a year before being rescued .

o When he finally got back to Spain he was very sick and died in 1506

TIME – LINE AND MAPS born set sail discovered north America returned home second voyage third

voyage forth voyage died

1451 AD 1492 12 oct 1492 1493 1493-96 1498-1500 1502-04 1506

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THE END RESULTS

He inspired Amerigo Vespucci to lead voyages to the what he called the “New World” , the new lands were named after him America .

After his voyages more sailors started to keep logs .

He proved the world was not flat but round . The improvement of their navigational skills

and ship building

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