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    sources about Christopher Columbus and express their opinion about whether he should be celebrated. The students will read an article about Christopher Columbus and highlight in one color the positive influence of Columbus’s life and in another color the negative influence of Columbus’s life. Then‚ the class will discuss the positives and negatives and the teacher will write each in columns on the board. The students will write in their own columns on a worksheet. The students will write a paragraph

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    The Effects of Christopher Columbus In 1492‚ Christopher Columbus landed in the new world; the Native Americans lives were altered through the introduction of the Columbian Exchange‚ Cultural changes and loss of their homeland. Columbus’s discovery of the new world sparked colonization of the Americas. There was an ample amount of vast‚ arable land thus creating economic opportunity for the wealthy and the common-man. The people longing for this opportunity intruded on the Native American’s land

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    homes and causing battles with them and enslaving them for labor while bringing over diseases that almost wiped out their population. I now feel that there should not be just a Christopher Columbus Day‚ but instead a day that recognizes Christopher Columbus’s long journey and the Native Americans great history and accomplishments before he arrived‚ including the battles they suffered after his arrival. Christopher Columbus should absolutely be recognized for his dream of sailing across the ocean and

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    goals that they wanted to embrace. Although they had a few similarities in the way they overcame those challenges‚ they did however accomplish these ambitions with separate mindsets and had difference’s in their ideas to succeed. One of Christopher Columbus’s main goals that he wanted to achieve in his lifetime was to discover a trade route to the Indies. Although he knew he could achieve this goal he knew it would follow with obstacles and challenges he would have to face during this voyage. One of

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    Introduction Questions: a) “Recovering native importance‚ however has sometimes come at the cost of underestimating the importance of European empires to the colonial story.” I believe this quote is saying that sometimes when we focus too much on finding artifacts and information about the natives and how it has shaped our world that we forget how important ‚ at the same time‚ European empires were. b) …imperial visions were “imperfectly inflicted.” This quote is saying that the Europeans had

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    embarks on this voyage with the desire to keep his promises to the King and Queen Ferdinand and Isabella. Columbus promises the King and Queen “cotton‚ spices and aromatics‚ timber and slaves” if they sponsor his travels. In these journal entries columbus’s writes to the King and Queen every detail about the voyage. He begins in October when he he arrives and meets as what he descirbes are the indians as naked and painted. In November he begins capturing the indians and their possessions. By December

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    positive‚ it will go from positive to negative. 8.9 Name the 2 other spheres. The two other spheres are hydrosphere and atmosphere. 8.11 As Columbus’s fleet sailed westward the discrepancy between magnetic north and celestial north changed. Did it increase of decrease? The discrepancy between magnetic north and celestial north increased enough that Columbus’s men wanted to turn back and not complete the journey. 8.12 Explain the difference in the orientations of the inclined compass needles in figure

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    ’for the world of the caribbean the arrival of Columbus constituted a major turning point Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer who was credited with "discovering" the New World (a European term for the continents of North America and South America). Columbus made four voyages to the Caribbean and South America between 1492 and 1504. As a boy‚ Columbus worked as a sailor on merchant and war ships in the Mediterranean Sea. In 1476 he went to Lisbon‚ Portugal‚ where he learned

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    The Natives felt that the Spanish were taking their land from them‚ so they rebelled. After numerous years of trying‚ Columbus finally got a permanent settlement started and what is known as the colonization of the New World began. Unfortunately‚ Columbus’s arrival in the New World was more like an invasion for those already inhabiting it. His discovery of the New World should be referred to as an “invasion” due to the diseases brought over by the Spanish‚ how the Spanish thought of and behaved

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    explorers Christopher Columbus and James Cook were recognized and honored in having great explorations in the world history. They encountered some Natives of countries in their individual explorations and in this essay I will compare and contrast the Columbus’s and Cook’s views of the natives they encountered. Christopher Columbus discovered native people from North America and Captain James Cook discovered them from Hawaii. They both kept journals of their experiences so now we are able to look back and

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