History Internal Assessent Name of Candidate: Samantha Wright School: Hydel High School Centre #; 100324 Candiddate # Teacher Miss Smith 2014 2. Research Question It was the Africans, not Christopher Columbus who discovered the Americas prior to 1492 Aims and Objectives In this essay the researcher will: Assesses the validity of Christopher Columbus's claim of discovering the New world Evaluate the evidence the African presence in the Americas prior to 1492 Analyze the view of historians who generally
Brittany Reier October 1, 2014 If We Only Knew Then What We Know Now “Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492.” Repeat again- “Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492.” Countless times are students asked to repeat this phrase at the elementary school level. Yet, little to their knowledge and much to our surprise, Columbus did much more than that. 1492 was a substantial year and Christopher Columbus did a lot more than what children are taught in school. To most people, it is easier to tell the same
Columbus Day: A Mistake Why should this day be celebrated in the first place? Columbus Day should not be celebrated, but should be removed. Although it might be nice to have the day off of work or school, the meaning behind this holiday is completely immoral. Technically, Columbus did not even discover the Americas because the lands were already inhabited. Columbus was guilty of the genocide of many Native Americans, or “Indians”, as they were commonly known as during that time. Columbus also did
Petronzio Professor Vavlas History Ancient Medieval 10/21/14 Ivan van Sertima. They Came Before Columbus. New York: Random House Trade Paperbacks. 2003. 284 Ancient History is something that we as humans are beginning to uncover more and more as time goes on due to much of the facts that we know today constantly being disputed. Our first real contact with our American history comes in the form of Christopher Columbus, which we know for a fact wasn’t the first group of people to inhabit the land that
Cristoforo Colombo, or his more common name, Christopher Columbus, has been remembered as many things throughout the ages, from an expert navigator to an opium addicted madman to a world wide hero, he’s done it all. But is he worthy of the title “Father of the New World”? Must his actions be judged by today’s standards? Should we continue to celebrate Columbus Day, despite the man’s flaws? I think that Christopher Columbus should be seen for what he is, a murderer, a maniac, and a bully on a religious
Abstract As Christopher Columbus I would attempt to outline the various reasons as to why the Spanish monarchy should commit its resources towards funding a second expedition to the new world which Columbus maintained to his dying day was the Far East. I would outline not only the discoveries that I have made in the new world that would be of benefit to Spain but also point out what Spain stands to acquire by supporting a second journey in terms of material riches, conquered lands and native populations
Medieval Spain Divided the World in Half: 1494. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2011. The fifth teen century was the century that shaped the world as we know it. During the late fifth teen hundrerds, Columbus returned from the New World back to Spain in 1493, King Joao of Portugal wanted all the riches. But before Christopher could’ve left to the New World, he need the help from the couple Isabella and Ferdinand. Isabella’s brother tried his best to marry her to the king of Portugal but could not make it
Columbus sailed to the new world in 1492 in search for India and instead found a whole new landmass, specifically two more continents. Columbus sailed for the Spanish since other nations had turned him down. Columbus sailed to the New World instead of the Native Americans sailing to Europe, but why? The simple answer is geography, which enabled three deadly weapons and advantages, guns, germs, and steel. One of the most devastating things Europeans brought to the Americas was diseases, specifically
There goes Christopher Columbus, sailing through the rough wind and waves. After days of travel, he finally sees the land himself. With this journey, he would have found the way to get to India by not traditional East route, but by a Westerly route. As he gets close to the shore, he would have thought in a way Thomas L. Friedman has thought in the recent age. “Was this the New World, the Old World, or the Next World?” (Friedman 663). Columbus was searching for India, and he reached America. Friedman
topic was very difficult for me. I started off thinking of topics that I could win the “Dankest Doc”, like Tristan and I did the year before, but all I thought of was monsters and aliens. After a lot of thinking and searching, I thought of the Bermuda Triangle. Once I thought of this topic, I immediately thought of how I could make the documentary “Dank”. Nothing came to mind, so I put the Triangle in the back of my head and continued searching. The next day, zombies popped into my head. I decided