5 Facts about Christopher Columbus
The birthplace of Christopher Columbus
What is the Republic of Genoa?
A group of scholars believed in this theory that Columbus later accepted.
What is the small earth theory?
The name of the three ships that sailed west with Columbus.
What is Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria?
What is Hispaniola?
What is starvation, suicide, disease, amputation, and war?
This person hired Christopher Columbus for a job.
Who is King John the II of Portugal?
He wanted to sail in this direction to find more goods.
What is sailing West?
The sailed from Palos, Spain on this date.
What is August 3, 1492?
Thirty-nine men were left in Hispaniola succumbed to this fate.
Who was killed by the Taino Chief?
Left these people in charge of Hispaniola when he returned to Spain.
Who are his brothers, Bartholomew and Giacomo?
The year Columbus 'discovered' America?
What is 1492?
Columbus tried these countries to finance his trip to explore West.
Who are France, England, and Spain?
The amount of time it took for Columbus to travel after the stop at Canary Island.
What is five weeks?
Columbus took these goods to Spain from his voyage west.
What are animals, chili peppers, cotton, tobacco, some gold and kidnapped Taino people?
People in the colonies and Spain were upset with Christopher Columbus' brutal commands and reacted in this manner.
What is the Spaniards began to war in Hispaniola?
Columbus discovered this ocean on the other side of Africa?
What is the Indian Ocean?
This country agreed to pay for Columbus to travel West.
Who is Spain?
Columbus landed in the Caribbean islands and found what people living there?
What is Taino people?
Upon Columbus' return with 17 ships from Spain in 1493, he forced the Taino people to do this.
What is mine for gold until it was gone or harsh punishment?
Queen Isabella I and King Ferdinand II sent an inspector to Hispaniola and discovered this truth.
What is Columbus brothers were guilty of their crimes, jailed, and no longer in charge of the new world?
Columbus traded with this country in South Asia.
What is India?
This Queen and King of Spain wanted Columbus to sail west to be more advance than Portugal.
Who is Queen Isabella I and King Ferdinand II?
Columbus thought he landed in this country once he arrived.
What is Japan?
Columbus suggested a slave trade to make more money for Spain.
What is kidnapped 500 Taino people and took them back to Spain?
Christopher Columbus died during this period.
What is May 20, 1506?