By: Christy Samson
English: 1st period
Teacher: Mr.Snyder, Brian
Date: 02/09/2017
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The time period when this event took place was 1400’s through 1500’s when Christopher Columbus set sail to find a shorter route to Asia. Back then the men wore silk covered from head to toe, they wore puffy jackets and trousers with linen shirts. Women wore fitted gowns with ruffles around the collar, with stuffing, wooden hoops and wires. They earned money mainly by agriculture which meant they farmed and provided enough food for their own needs than they would sell the extra at the market to earn money. The men did most of the farming and picked the crops while the women were in charge of poultry and dairy, which meant they milked the cows, made milk …show more content…
Now before before Christopher Columbus had this idea he was just a normal boy like you and me. Christopher Columbus was born on October 31, 1451 in the Republic of Genoa, Italy. He was the son of a weaver and loved sailing. Columbus’s first went to sea when he was a teenager participating in many trading voyages in the Mediterranean and Aegean seas. One voyage to the island of Khios, in modern day Greece, brought him the closest we would even come to Asia. When he was older Columbus would participate in several voyages to Africa and gain more knowledge about the seas and oceans, mainly the Atlantic ocean and its currents. Muslim domination of the trade routes made traveling to India and China very difficult for them. Columbus, believing that sailing through the Atlantic would be quicker and safer, devised a plan to sail west the reach the east. In this plan of his he estimated the earth to be a sphere approximately 63% its actual size and its distance between the Canary Islands and Japan to be about 2,300 miles. Many sailing experts disagreed with him and said that the second century BC estimate of the earth’s circumference at 25,000 miles.
English: 1st period
Teacher: Mr.Snyder, Brian
Date: 02/09/2017
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The time period when this event took place was 1400’s through 1500’s when Christopher Columbus set sail to find a shorter route to Asia. Back then the men wore silk covered from head to toe, they wore puffy jackets and trousers with linen shirts. Women wore fitted gowns with ruffles around the collar, with stuffing, wooden hoops and wires. They earned money mainly by agriculture which meant they farmed and provided enough food for their own needs than they would sell the extra at the market to earn money. The men did most of the farming and picked the crops while the women were in charge of poultry and dairy, which meant they milked the cows, made milk …show more content…
Now before before Christopher Columbus had this idea he was just a normal boy like you and me. Christopher Columbus was born on October 31, 1451 in the Republic of Genoa, Italy. He was the son of a weaver and loved sailing. Columbus’s first went to sea when he was a teenager participating in many trading voyages in the Mediterranean and Aegean seas. One voyage to the island of Khios, in modern day Greece, brought him the closest we would even come to Asia. When he was older Columbus would participate in several voyages to Africa and gain more knowledge about the seas and oceans, mainly the Atlantic ocean and its currents. Muslim domination of the trade routes made traveling to India and China very difficult for them. Columbus, believing that sailing through the Atlantic would be quicker and safer, devised a plan to sail west the reach the east. In this plan of his he estimated the earth to be a sphere approximately 63% its actual size and its distance between the Canary Islands and Japan to be about 2,300 miles. Many sailing experts disagreed with him and said that the second century BC estimate of the earth’s circumference at 25,000 miles.