Christopher Columbus: The Skills Of Critical Thinking

Document B is about letter from Columbus to King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella.It was written in March 15,1493. It is about Columbus he sent sail from Spain to find an all-water route to Asia. This source was created in March 15,1493. During the time this source was created In beautiful mountains, great farms, groves and fields. This source reflects the time period because of Christopher Columbus is that on August 3, 1492, Columbus set sail from Spain to find an all-water route to Asia. Document C is about Account by Bartolome de las casas to the Spanish Monarchy. It was written in 1542. It is about Columbus was a killer and a lier. This source was created in 1542. During the time this source was created Killing, terrorizing and destroying the

When Christopher Columbus sailed to the Americas he discovered the Bahamas. According to Document A in the poem it says “But "India" the land was not; It was the Bahamas, and it was hot. This means that when Christopher Columbus was trying to get to India, he accidentally discovered the Bahamas. This shows that he did discovered the Bahamas. Additionally, according to Document B, in the letter he(Christopher Columbus) says that “When Columbus arrived back in Spain on March 15, 1493.

Document A is a poem that was written in 1948. The poem says positive/ good things about Christopher Columbus. The point of this document is that it celebrates when Christopher Columbus arrived in the Americas on October 12.The point of view is shown through describing Christopher with positive decisions. “This point of view can be interpreted as limited or biased because ”the poet only talks about the good side. Also the meaning of this document is to teach Christopher Columbus is a hero.

Supported by Spain, seeking a water route to the spice islands in 1492 Christopher Columbus left Spain on his first voyage. After more then a month had passed, the crew started to loose all hope and the voyage seemed like a failure. Until on October 12, 1492 land was sighted. The land that was sighted was not what Columbus had originally intended to find. Columbus landed in the Caribbean Sea in the Bahamas, which was thousands of miles away from his original destination. It was there that he met the indigenous people of the islands. These encounters that he had along with the treatment of these native people would eventually help shape his legacy, but at the

Despite his unethical decisions, Columbus’ contributions to the modern world are unparalleled by any other voyager. Although some believe this was due to luck, others feel it was due to the unwavering commitment Christopher Columbus had with redefining the Earth’s boundaries. Columbus changed the way we see the world, both literally and metaphorically, by discovering a western hemisphere, colonizing land, and connecting the Old World to the New

I claim that expansion would have taken a lot longer time or possible not happened without the greed of wealthy men.

From that fateful day, instead of sailing the Atlantic with the sure fact that the Earth was round in mind, Columbus instead led the life of a dishwasher in some pub of Italy. The whole world population remained in Africa, Europe, and Asia. The Atlantic Slave Trade never occurred, and the map of the world was eventually drawn very awkwardly. The Native Americans never fulfilled their Hollywood dream of horseback bow-wielding experts we know them as, and the Italians never made their big break of being famous for their unsurmountable pizza-making

Once upon a time, there was a peaceful and resourceful land inhabited by a people called the Arawaks. In these lands were gold, food, and more importantly, tranquility. Although the Arawaks dressed stark naked, they wore gold earrings. They lived on agriculture and livestock. These people lived in the Bahamas Island and behaved very similar to the Indians on the mainland-America. These people could rightly be called Native Americans/Indians. However primitive these people were, they were very organized.

The story of Columbus goes a little something like this class… Columbus was the only person to believe that the earth was round so he came up with the idea that if he had sailed west across the Atlantic that he would arrive faster in order to beat the competition for trade. He sailed and sailed and finally hit land, believing it was India because he noticed all of the dark colored people and originally he thought he was headed that direction. In reality these people were the Native Americans but he called them Indians. The Native Americans were welcoming people and he was kind to them as well, and it was all happily ever after. Now class, the real story goes like this… First off, “in 1492 no one thought the earth was flat” so Columbus actually did not prove the world is round. (Inman 3). Having it pass down class

As an explorer, Columbus not only confirmed the world was round, but he decoded the Atlantic wind system, discovered the magnetic variation in the Western hemisphere and, among other things, contributed to the mapping of the Atlantic and the New World (Fernández-Armesto, 182). Columbus' great skill in navigation paved the way for later explorers to come to the New World. Before he had set out in pursuit of the East Indies, he studied charts, maps, and journals from earlier explorers and was certain that he could reach the Far East by sailing westward. His calculations were beyond correct and he never quite realized the fact that he was nowhere near the Far East, but in reality was on a whole other continent. "The task he set for himself – to cross the Ocean Sea was literally beyond the capacity of any vessel of his day. The task he performed – to cross from Europe to a New World – was beyond the conception of many of his contemporaries" (Fernández-Armesto, 183). Nobody thought that Columbus could reach the Far East – much less anything at all. He achieved the highly impossible and instead of being praised, is put down for his faults.

Christopher Columbus intent was to find a sea route to Asia and to the sight of this land; Mr. Columbus has achieved the goal and ranked Columbus is one of the greatest navigators. Christopher Columbus was self-taught, he knows the visionary experienced by the maritime voyage. Like many contemporary intellectuals, Christopher knows that the earth is round. The belief that the sea route to the west, he could reach Asia is a land of wealth. Asian goods if transported by road, will face many obstacles and damaged, causing prices can rise. Therefore, the ship can transport more commodities, it will make items have cheaper price. Christopher believes that Asia is located in the western part of Europe, but the question appeared that how far the distance between the two continents.

In many a voyage across the Atlantic Ocean, various resources from the New World of North America had been transported and distributed throughout the pre-established European countries founded before the discovery of the Americas, the Old World. In great means of success, the resources expanded in popularity and caused many economic and agricultural effects on the inhabitants of the Old World. The great man behind such growth was Christopher Columbus, an Italian seaman who, on commissioned ventures provided by the country of Spain, modified the economic and agricultural establishments of the Old World. The importation of multiple New World resources brought to the Old World many modifications regarding the agricultural focuses, economic successes, and the diets and lifestyles of the European population.

While he was in Portugal, Columbus was a merchant, but he had greater ideas. He wanted to find a completely new way to the Indies. A fast, better way. This route would go across the Atlantic Ocean, which back then was just a big, intimidating ocean that no sailor dared to cross. Contrary to popular belief, the Earth was known to be round, only the uneducated believed it to be flat and if you travelled too far, you’d fall of the edge of the world. Columbus decided that Japan- he knew it as Cipangu- was a mere 5,000-mile voyage west of Portugal, over an ocean covering a round Earth. He believed that if you kept going West, you would eventually get to the Indies and that is the theory he stuck with throughout his voyage and life. Christopher Columbus went to King John II of Portugal to seek a fund and support for his voyage, but was

Critical thinking can lead to a compassionate and empathetic state that allows a person to evaluate multiple perspectives on an issue or a complex situation. Then allows that person to feel, see, and hear what the other person does, making a connection between the two. Because a critical thinker considers and evaluates a problem before addressing it, makes them more susceptible to having a connection with the predicament.

Critical thinking means accurate thinking in the search of appropriate and dependable knowledge about the world. Another way to describe it is sensible, insightful, responsible, and skillful thinking that is focused on deciding what to believe or do. Critical thinking is not being able to process information well enough to know to stop for red lights or whether you established the right change at the supermarket.