Sailing the Ocean Blue
It was this year that Columbus sailed on his voyage to the "West Indes"
What is 1492?
Columbus named The New World the "West Indes" because he thought he had landed here.
What is Asia?
Columbus build this fort in the New World once he arrived.
What is fort Navidad?
Columbus was born in this city in this country.
What is Genoa, Italy
The largest ship of Columbus' fleet only was about ____ feet long.
What is 60?
These Three ships were a part of Columbus' voyage, funded by Spain.
What is the Nina, The Pinta, and the Santa Maria
The day Columbus arrived he wrote about which two native American Tribes in his Journal.
What are the Arawaks and Taíno?
"They ought to make good and skilled ___" said Columbus, referring to the Natives
What are servants?
Columbus was known for sending ____ after runaway slaves.
What are dogs?
It was this month specifically that Columbus and his crew left for the "New World"
What is August?
This was the original intention of Columbus' voyage.
What is a faster route to the West Indes.
Previous to Columbus' arrival Native American had not seen these types of weaponry.
What are steel swords, pikes, crossbows, dogs, and horses?
Columbus' treatment of the Natives started the very origins of the ______ Trade.
What is the Transatlantic Slave Trade?
Columbus was arrested in Spain for cruelty to the Native People in this year.
What is 1500?
This was Columbus' job before he captioned his voyages.
What is a chart and mapmaker?
Columbus actually set foot here, not on mainland America.
What is the Caribbean?
The Native Island contained a finite amount of this natural resource.
What is gold?
Columbus was determined to take back both material and human cargo to his sovereigns [Ferdinand and Isabella] and for himself, and this could be accomplished only if his sailors carried out this.
what is looting, kidnapping, and other violent acts?
Although Columbus regained his freedom, being released from prison, he did not regain his ___.
What is prestige?
All pictures of Columbus are interpretations because of this.
What is Columbus never sat for a portrait?
Once Columbus found the New World, many explorers called what started heading there too.
What are conquistadors?
The natives have lived in the new world ____ many years before Columbus' arrival.
What is thousands?
Columbus made every native older than 14 give him a _____ full of gold every three months.
What is a thimble?
Columbus forced the natives to give him and his crew food and supplies, but the Native had none to give because they did not create____.
What is a surplus?
Columbus left this amount of crew members in the New world.
What is 39?