You all know the old saying from grade school, "In fourteen hundred ninety-two Columbus sailed the ocean blue." Now let's go beyond this famous line to the real importance of Christopher Columbus' discovery of America. Your task is to click on this link and carefully read The Significance of 1492. When you are finished reading, answer the following questions.1. Why was the 500th anniversary of Columbus' discovery treated differently than the 400th anniversary?
2. What were some results of the meeting of the two worlds?
3. Explain the impact of European diseases on the Native Americans.
4. How did Columbus' discovery contribute to the modern concept of progress?
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7 comments:
1. the 400th anniversary thought of columbus' discovery as a great discovery and they didn't look on the bad side. the 500th annivery found this as a time to morn for all of the indian that died because of all of the diseases that the europeans brought over
2.trade was the big result and the exchange of food was another
3.the diseases killed off alot of indians and there was nothing they could do about it because there bodys didn't have an immunity to it
4.because alot of people moved to america and they made a life here
1. The 500th anniversary was different from the 400th because the 400th just looked at what good he did in the 500th people saw all the bad things he did like bring diseases.
2. The meeting of the two world brought different food to places that couldn’t get this food so this started trading for goods.
3. The European diseases wiped out 50% maybe more of the native Americans that lived there.
4. His discovery started trade and gave immigrants a place to go to try to make the perfect future.
1. Christopher cilumbus was treated as a imperalism, and conlonialist, and also a conquerer.
2.Diseas, racism, and slvery is the results of the two sides confroting.
3.The impact of European disease ended in the result if 50 - 90 % of the natives diyin.
4.The New World to the Europeans was a place for freedom, innocence, and eternal youth.
1. Many people of indigerous and African descentidentified columbus with imperialism,colonialism,and conquest.
2. like crops and animals.
3.They caused the greatest mass deaths in human history.
4. It contributed to the developement of the modern concept of progress.
1.The 500th anniversy was treated differntly because many ppl treated him with impearlism,colonialism and conquest.
2.it resulted with not only extraordinary transformation of the natural environment&human cultures in the New World, it also initiated far reaching changes in the Old World.
3.the disease caused the greartest mass deaths it killed 50 to 90% of the pop.
4.his discovery contributed by the indians living free but offered a car for criticizing the corruptions,abuses,&restrictions of european society
miss a. this was kinda hard for me to understand the concept of this i know i didnt do the last one like it was suppose to be. but i know the more i do i get a hang of it.
1.)The 500th anniversary was different from the 400th because many people treated him with imperialism, colonialism and conquest.
2.)Some results of the meeting of the two worlds were new foods that changed the diet of people, natural environment was transformed, and death and diseases.
3.) The impact caused the native americans the greatest mass death in human history, its population reduced by 50 to 90 percent.
4.)Columbus' discovery contributed in the modern concept of progress by making innocence, freedom, and eternal youth to the Europeans.
1.)The 500th anniversary was different from the 400th because many people treated him with imperialism, colonialism and conquest.
2.)Some results of the meeting of the two worlds were new foods that changed the diet of people, natural environment was transformed, and death and diseases.
3.) The impact caused the native americans the greatest mass death in human history, its population reduced by 50 to 90 percent.
4.)Columbus' discovery contributed in the modern concept of progress by making innocence, freedom, and eternal youth to the Europeans.
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