Joanna of Castile

Christopher Columbus was born in Genoa, Italy in 1451. His father was a weaver. He got inspired to explore by reading a book by Marco Polo. He went on his first voyages as a teenager on trading expeditions. On his very first voyage he almost died when enemy pirates attacked his ship. He escaped by swimming to the Portuguese shore. In Portugal, he married a woman named Felipa Perestrello and they had a son named Diego. Felipa died shortly after the baby was born and Columbus moved to Spain. Many…

In 1942, there was once an explorer who crossed the Atlantic Ocean and found new land. There is also a special day named after him and it always falls on the second Monday of October, his name is Christopher Columbus. Many schools only teach what makes Christopher Columbus look good, but in reality he was a bad man. Today, I will be teaching fifth graders the real truth about the man who found the New World by telling them a story, from what the textbooks say and from what the real truth of the…

"I have not told the half of what I saw..."-Marco Polo. “The Age of Exploration is a world history period from 1400 to 1600 in which Europeans traveled the rest of the world in search of goods, raw materials, land, and trade partners.”(University of Cambridge) The Age of Exploration was a time when many explorers such as Marco Polo seen many things people hadn’t discovered or wrote about yet. Marco Polo was a Venetian journalist and explorer who sailed first to China, which was under the control…

She was named Isabella I of Castile. She was a very powerful queen while Ferdinand was a king, and she lived through the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Her father was John II of Castile and her mother was Isabella of Portugal. At 18 years old, she already loved jewels, gowns, and being queen most of her life. She started to rule Castile in 1474 and ended in 1505. In order to keep her throne, she had to fight in a civil war.…

The Last Voyage of Columbus, by Martin Dugard is a historical nonfiction book that discussed Christopher colobuses’ journey as an explorer. From his time in Hispaniola, to his forth and final voyage throughout the Caribbean which ended only 2 years prior to his death this book covers many important moments. I have never been someone who excels at history, because of this one reason I chose this book is because prior to reading this book I had a decent amount of knowledge about Christopher…

Many people do not know much about Spain 's history. However, like a lot of European countries that had to go through finding a nationality and trying to keep it from other countries. At one point in Spain’s history find their self-identity and take back their country from foreign invaders. Also, there were some tension between the Spanish and the Muslims that were living in Spain at the time. This could have been the domino effect that lead into the Reconquista. Here I am going to be discussing…

Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492. Or at least on his first time around. Christopher Columbus was a young man who is credited by society to have “discovered” the new world. Columbus was born in 1451, about 40 years before he would discover the new world. He moved from his homeland to portugal where he married Felipa Perestrello. In 1480, he fathered a child with her, Diego, and when she died, he fathered another son with Beatriz Enriquez de Arana, with which he named Fernando. Columbus had…

Many historians disagree about where and when the compass was created. A common opinion was that it was invented in China and Europe during the twelfth century. The ‘mariner's compass’ was created and perfected in Italy during the later thirteenth century and early fourteenth century. The mariner's compass was used as a guide for ships and sailors and helped them figure out which way north is and where the nearest land is. Before the compass was invented and used, ships would sail close to land…

country or were persecuted because they could not openly practice their religion and did not want to convert. During this period of time loyalty of the Catholic Church was questioned, heavily. The inquisition was institutionalized under the crown of Castile, Isabella, and the crown of Argon, Ferdinand. The inquisition was instilled to defend the catholic faith by the assimilation…

Giovanni Caboto, more commonly known as John Cabot, was born in Genoa, Italy in approximately 1450. He lived with his father and brother, Giulio and Pierro Caboto. His father being a spice merchant, they were a fairly wealthy family. John helped his father trade spices n Genoa for most of his childhood, but it was when he moved to Venice, around 1461, at eleven years old, that he began to form into the famous explorer that he was. When Caboto arrived in Venice, he began learning from local…