Christopher Columbus and the Age of Exploration for Kids: With 21 Activities
Columbus many historians were now willing to con cede had numerous character flaws that resulted in misadventures and moral failure He was seen as the first of many Europeans who in coming to the New World ravaged the land plundered its wealth and eventually introduced African slavery There was no Columbian Exposition in 1992 In the United States Columbus was hardly mentioned at all The 1892 93 Columbian Exposition in Chicago Illi nois Library of Congress LC USZC2 3394
Portrait of Christopher Columbus Library of Congress LC USZ62 9121 Christopher Columbus is possibly the most researched and written about individual in history That is not surprising No matter what one may think of Columbus hero heel or both the signifi cance of what he did however interpreted is monu mental Christopher Columbus changed the world For that Columbus given the title the Admiral of the Ocean Sea deserves to be known and his legacy explored What follows hopefully will be your own act of
Time Line Early Years 1451 Columbus is born in Genoa Italy By the age of 14 he takes to the sea 1476 Columbus swims ashore after his ship is sunk in a battle with a Franco Portuguese war fleet off Portugal 1480 Eldest son Diego is born 1484 Columbus conceives of the Enterprise of the Indies fails to get backing from King João I of Portugal 1488 Second son Fernando is born 1490 The king and queen of Spain refuse to spon sor the Enterprise of the Indies 1492 Moors driven from Spain in January First Voyage to the Americas 1492 King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain agree to sponsor Columbus Columbus departs from Palos Spain on August 3 arrives in the West Indies on October
flagship Santa Maria sinks of Hispaniola on December 24 Columbus founds La Navidad on December 26 1493 Columbus departs Hispaniola for Spain on January 1 arrives at Lisbon Portugal on March 3 Second Voyage to the Americas 1493 Grand fleet of 17 ships departs Cadiz on Sep tember 25 Columbus returns to La Navidad on November 28 to find the settlement destroyed and all Spaniards dead 1494 Columbus arrives at Cuba on April 30 reaches Jamaica on May 5 open warfare breaks out between Spaniards and Indians 1495 In March Columbus wins battle on the broad fertile valley known as the Vega Real 1496 Columbus departs from Hispaniola for Spain reaches the coast of Portugal on June 8 Christopher Columbus sighting the New World Library of Congress LC USZ62 5339
