1493 - the RETURN to Europe from the Voyage of Discovery

by Ava R.

Yellow Group

Today's date: 2/2/18

Date of Article:1493

Headline: The Return Voyage

Author: Lorenzo Camusso

Source of the Article: The Voyage of Columbus

Three Vocabulary Words:

1. Inflicted: "to be suffered by someone" "to impose something unwelcome upon someone or something"

2. Abate: get smaller or to "lessen, resduce, remove"

3. Viceroy: a butterfly or "a ruler exercising authority in a colony on behalf of a sovereign."

Summary: (PARAGRAPH FORM, Who, What, Where, When, Why) The Pinta and Nina got separated in a huge storm, making each other think the other one sunk. Columbus was trying to get back to Spain, through a “carib” came aboard. They had seen some of his natives on land , and started some trading. An argument broke out between the crew and the natives, and some of the natives got killed or injured because of the attack. Columbus planned to travel east, going through the “South of the Azores”, though he planned to not stop at these islands because of the “Portuguese rule.” While sailing back to Spain, (like mentioned earlier) a huge storm hit the two ships, and they got separated, Since Columbus was on the Nina, he was in charge of the ship. The sailors saw land, but it was the Santa Maria in the Azores. They ended up getting arrested to the “island’s Portuguese inhabitants” though Columbus was able to convince then to set them free.

Type your "thoughts" on the Columbus Day "change of name" idea. After typing your thoughts here (with evidence) delete these words of instruction. (Include a link to the article) I think that when Columbus was traveling back to Spain, he should've been more careful about letting someone he didn't know on board, and when he went to Santa Maria he should've been more aware of his surroundings. If our town was perhaps planning to travel to Asia n a boat, we would actually know what we were doing, and that the world is atcually A LOT BIGGER than what Columbus thought compared to what he did and his boat. This shows that COLUMBUS WAS NOT VERY SMART OR NICE... If no one had found out how large/round the Earth was, we probably would not be traveling right now. If we had listened and not figured out that Asia wasn't those islands Columbus thought it was, we really wouldn't be able to travel much right now. That would make it difficult for the whole world to understand each other (culture, etc.) if we never saw other people.

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