Christopher Columbus Research Paper

     Columbus was like a God in the eyes of the Native Americans and they believed that he could save them. They followed him around and wanted to find out more about these strage people who had landed on there territory. The natives saw no harm in Columbus and his men and offered them most of the things they had as gifts. They were willing to give the Europeans anything they wanted. All of the things the Europeans had were new to them. For example in Columbus’s own journal, I Take Possession for King and Queen, he states that:

Christopher Columbus was born in Genoa, Italy in 1451 as the son of a merchant, most likely into a Christian household. As a teenager, he worked on a merchant ship and gained experience in trading voyages in the Mediterranean and Aegean Seas. He continued similar jobs at sea until his first voyage into the Atlantic Ocean in 1470, when the French attacked his ship along the Portuguese Coast. Despite his sunken ship, Columbus floated to Lisbon, where he married Felipa Perestrello and had a son. At this time, he also began studies in mathematics, astronomy, and navigation, thus inspiring him to begin formulating his world changing plan. After the death of his wife, he moved to Spain, remarried and had another son. Meanwhile, he

Christopher Columbus was born in 1451 in Genoa, Italy. Columbus died on May 20, 1506 in Valladolid, Spain. Columbus had two kids named Diego and Ferdinand Columbus. He had a wife named Filipa Moniz Perestrelo and they were married in 1479. Columbus wanted to find a Western Sea

School taught us about the infamous Christopher Columbus who was known as the hero who found the Americas in 1492, but is that the truth? Is Columbus really the hero that grade school portrayed him to be? Columbus was not. Columbus was a greedy man who destroyed an entire race of people with genocide just so only he could benefit and become a man of money and power.

The main idea behind the voyage was to find a faster route to the Indies, as well as introduce Christianity and The King and Queen to the new world along with its inhabitants. As said by Columbus “Your Highnesses, as Catholic Christians, and princes who love and promote the holy Christian faith, and are enemies of the doctrine of Mahomet, and of all idolatry and heresy, determined to send me, Christopher Columbus, to the above-mentioned countries of India, to see the said princes, people, and territories, and to learn their disposition and the proper method of converting them to our holy faith; and furthermore directed that I should not proceed by land to the East, as is customary, but by a Westerly route, in which direction we have hitherto no certain evidence that any one has gone.” Like said, it shows that Columbus wished to find a faster route, so Spain could easily be able to obtained traded goods which would produce more profit for the country of Spain. This kind of shows that Spain needed to find this route due

There are two different sides to this man’s story. He was both a good man and an evil one. Who is this man that I am talking about? We know him as Christopher Columbus! The things he did are even being talked about today. You might have heard a few things about him, but I am going to try to tell you a few more. Something that you probably never knew about him. This is my report about Christopher Columbus.

Christopher Columbus set sail on a voyage out of the Spanish port of Palos on August 3, 1942. He led three ships; the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria. He had an objective to sail west until he reached Asia (the Indies). However, Columbus trip was taking longer than he expected. He kept two logs of his journey, the first was kept a secret. The second log he kept deceive his crew by under-reporting the true distance they had traveled from Spain. The crew caught on to Christopher Columbus deception on October 10th, and Columbus promised his crew if they had not found land in the next two days that they would return home. The next day land was discovered. The voyage almost never happened because Columbus needed his trip to financed, and everyone

When Christopher Columbus sailed to the Americas he stole land, kidnapped people and started a massacre. This all started August 3, 1492, when Columbus started his trip to India. According to Document B, “I took possession of all of them for our most fortunate King...no one making any resistance.” This was written by Christopher Columbus in 1493. In this quote he is referring to the people of the islands he discovered, saying that he has kidnapped them for the King. It also states, “ In the island, which I have said before was called Hispana, there are very lofty and beautiful mountains, great farms...and well adapted for constructing buildings.”, which describes reasons they should take over the land. Additionally, according to Document C,

Christopher Columbus was sponsored by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabel of Spain in 1492 to find an alternate trade route to Asia. The Reconquista was just wrapping up in Spain, and in hopes to continue the movement, the King and Queen encouraged Columbus to spread Christianity once he made landfall. Their goals for his voyage were similar to many at the time: find riches, spread faith, and claim any unconquered lands. Columbus was successful in all three, however, there is much controversy in the measures Columbus took to do so. Although Christopher Columbus caused the death of many indigenous people and ecological succession, his ultimate goal was to carry out the requests of the Spanish government, therefore he should not be found guilty because

Christopher Columbus is the all too famous explorer who is credited with accidentally finding the New World. Children have been taught throughout their lives that he is someone to look up to. Columbus’ heroism could easily be turned to villainy because he sold natives into slavery, murdered and brought disease to innocent people, and pushed them out and took their land.

He knew the world was round so that wasn't why he wanted to set sail. He wanted fame and fortune and he was promised that by Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand. They were also the ones that funded his journey. He was given everything he would need and he believed it would take about a month to get to where he was headed, but it ended up taking him around three months. He was on his way to Asia but he miscalculated and ended up on the other side of the world instead. The men in his crew were beginning to get frustrated with him. They were running out of food and other supplies, they had not packed enough for the time it was taking them. Maybe Columbus wasn't a good as a sailor as he thought he was, because he didn't have a successful journey. Yes, he find a new piece land that for them had not been discovered yet, but he only found it because he got lucky. He was looking for Asia and landed somewhere

First of all, Christopher Columbus enslaved innocent people. Columbus enslaved Native Americans to work on plantations! He did that because he could make more money by selling cash crops, but the Native Americans are doing all the work while Christopher Columbus just making money for no reason. Just imagine being forced to work day and night and not get a piece of money and being lucky to just have an actual meal.

In the year of 1492, the man who brought tragedy to the Americas was seen as a hero to us, but little did we know what he really did. Every elementary kid learned that Christopher Columbus found America in an honorable way. We also have a national holiday just for him. They never told us though how he was looking for the Indies and thought he was in China. In reality he was lost and had no clue he was in America. They also did not show us how he actually treated the people on the islands when he met them. He was cruel to them just because they could not understand him and he took away their land just because he wanted to. Christopher Columbus was a really bad man, but was taught to us as a good man. What really happened in the year

Although little is known about Christopher Columbus historian have inferred and determined some evidence about his life. Christopher Columbus was born in Genoa, Italy. He was born in 1451. Columbus grew up with 4 siblings and they were all older than him. His father was a wool weaver.

Content Goal Christopher Columbus is not the person most US history textbooks state. • identify cultural aspects of another culture that are unlike your own • Examine how a culture has changed • Become up-to-date on new research of a cultural aspect • Explain basic geographic principles (where and why) • Identify incorrect cultural interpretations Rationale Most people believe Christopher Columbus set sail August 3, 1492, and discovered America. In fact, millions of people were already living in America and he never made it to North America. On October 12, 1492 he reached land but the land was today’s Cuba, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic, as well as the Central and South American coasts.