Christopher Columbus USF Sustainability programs 克里斯托弗哥伦布USF的可持续发展项目.ppt

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Christopher Columbus USF Sustainability programs 克里斯托弗哥伦布USF的可持续发展项目.ppt

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Christopher Columbus:The man behind the myth E! True Hollywood Stories: In fourteen hundred ninety-two Columbus sailed the ocean blue… So what was happening 500 years ago in the year 1492?? In Europe… The Spanish Inquisition- Began in Spain in 1480 Spread of Catholicism; Persecution of Jews and Muslims Theological development that amassing wealth and domination was key to salvation Cruel Punishments: People who were suspected of ‘criminal’ acts, depending on the crime, faced severe punishment. The most merciful was being hanged. Other punishments ranged from cutting off criminals’ heads, arms, legs, hands, or feet to being burned at the stake in front of large audiences. 1492 Continued… The Renaissance Period (1400-1600): the rebirth of humanism The Printing Press and increased literacy Advances in science, mathematics, and arts Myth: Columbus was first to think that the Earth was round, all others thought Earth was flat (Began in Washington Irving’s biography of Columbus in 1828) Truth: There is evidence that this was known by the Egyptians thousands of years ago and also more evidence provided by Greek mathematician Pythagoras in the 6th century B.C.E. 1492 in terms of exploration… Myth: Sea exploration began with Europeans in the 1400’s… Fact: There is evidence of many other cultures exploring the world by ship before Columbus’s time. The Portuguese called their ships “caravels”, derived from the Egyptian word “caravos” Evidence that Egyptians and Phoenicians sailed around Africa in 600 B.C.E. Accounts of two Native Americans shipwrecked in Holland in 60 B.C.E. Ancient Roman coins found by archeologists in America Map found in Turkey dated 1513 of the coastlines of South America and Antarctica that was based from the library of Alexander the Great The Viking expeditions to Greenland, Iceland around 1000 Indigenous peoples living in Americas when Columbus landed Exploration continued… Strong evidence that West Africans arrived in Mexico in 750 B.C. Head