Notebook Entry 3 Inspiration for Columbus Marco Polos journeys from 1271 1295 to China inspire Columbus Marco tells of lands with amazing riches and spectacular cities Publishes details in book called ID: 532101
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Columbus
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Inspiration for Columbus
Marco Polo’s journeys from 1271 – 1295 to China inspire Columbus.
Marco tells of lands with amazing riches and spectacular cities.
Publishes details in book called Travels.Slide3
Start of a Voyage
Columbus, basing his math of Ptolemy, believed he could get to Asia in 2 months via ship.
Goes to Spanish with proposal to claim lands for them in return for financing.
Spanish desire this because they want to compete with the Portuguese who have been getting further and further down Africa.Slide4
Voyage
Columbus sets sail in 1492 with 3 ships, Nina,
Pinta
, and Santa Maria.After about 2 months ends up in the Caribbean, thinking he had found some land off of India.Makes 3 more voyages, but does not find what he is looking for. Slide5
Aftermath
It becomes apparent that new lands are not Asia.
Portugal wants to claim some of the land as well.
Dispute prompts Pope Alexander VI to issue a Line of Demarcation separating the New World into Spanish and Portuguese territories.America actually named for Amerigo Vespucci, an Italian sailor and cartographer(mapmaker.)Slide6
Aftermath
Millions of people in the Caribbean Islands die.
Bartolome de
las Casas believes in around 40 years around 15 million people are killed by European diseases and brutality.
Starts the Columbian Exchange; exchange of plants, animals, and diseases between both sides of the Atlantic.Slide7
Columbian Exchange