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age of exploration - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Born in 1451
      - Genoa (Modern Day Italy)
      - Merchant working on trading ships
      - Spent 9 years at Sagres Sailing School
      - He thought the world was round but didn’t realise how big it was
    - - 3 Ships
        
        Nina
        
        Pinta
        
        Santa Maria
        
        Equipment
        
        80 Men
        
        Hardtack, Wine
        
        Salted Meat , Rice, Water
        
        Fish
    - - “In 1492 Columbus sailed the Ocean Blue”
      - He kept a fake logbook which told the crew that they hadn’t travelled that far.
      - He threatened them with hanging if they mutinied.
      - After 69 Days they seen Land (San Salvador)
      - He thought that he’d reached India
    - - Land was spotted by of the Crew Members on the 12th of October 1492
        It had 69 Days since they left Spain
    - - Columbus was convinced that he had reached India
        
        He returned with some Natives that he called Indians
        
        Exotic Fruits and Animals and some Gold
        
        He was treated as hero
    - - Columbus was sponsored for three more voyages
        
        But he was very cruel to natives, selling them as slaves, torturing them and killing them.
        
        He was eventually removed as Governer
  - - - He sailed for Spain
      - Sponsored by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella
      - He had been refused sponsorship by France, England and Portugal
  - - - John Cabot - Canada
      - Ferdinand Magellan - Sailed all the way around the globe
      - Abel Tasman - Tasmania (South of Australia) and New Zealand