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1492 COLUMBUS DISCOVERED AMERICA
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Deconstruct that statement

• 1st 1492?
• 2nd Christopher Columbus?
• 3rd Discovered?
• 4th America?

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1492?
Why is this given as the date?
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Which Date Year?

• Gregorian Date October 12, 1492 AD
• Julian Calendar Date October 3, 1492 AD
• Actual year of Christs birth 1494 to 1450

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Other possible years

• Jewish Calendar 5252
• Islamic Calendar 898
• Chinese Calendar Year of the Pig

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Taino Calendar

• Yucatec 12 Ahau (Flower)
• Quiché 12 Junajpu (Marksman)
• Glyph Count 220 of 260  
• Long Count 11.13.12.4.

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Christopher Columbus?
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Which name?

• Christopher Columbus
• Cristoforo Columbo
• Cristóbal Colón

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Which one is Columbus?
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• Sebastiano del Piombo painted this portrait
  thirteen years after Columbus's death.

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The Real Columbus?

• Weaver from Genoa?
• Sailor from Catalonia region of northeast Spain
• Pirate with the Corsairs?
• Slaver

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Discovered?
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Other explorers

• Viking
• Japanese Fishermen
• Chinese explorer

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All by himself
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Crew of the Santa MariaCristobal Colon
(Christopher Columbus), captain-general, Juan de
la Cosa, owner and master, Diego de Arana,
master-at-arms, Pedro de Gutierrez, royal
steward, Rodrigo de Escobedo, secretary of the
fleet Rodrigo Sanchez, comptroller Diego de
Salcedo, servant of Columbus Luis de Torres,
interpreter Rodrigo de Jerez Alonso Chocero
Alonso Clavijo Andres de Yruenes Antonia de
Cuellar, carpenter Bartolome Biues Bartolome de
Torres Bartolome Garcia, boatswain Chachu,
boatswain Cristobal Caro, goldsmith Diego
Bermudez Diego Perez, painter Domingo de
Lequeitio Domingo Vizcaino, cooper Gonzalo Franco
Jacomel Rico Juan, servant Juan de Jerez Juan de
la Placa Juan Martines de Acoque Juan de Medina
Juan de Moguer Juan Ruiz de la Pena Juan Sanchez,
physician Lope, joiner Maestre Juan Marin de
Urtubia Pedro deTerreros, cabin boy Pero Nino,
pilot Pedro Yzquierdo Pedro de Lepe Rodrigo
Gallego, servant
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Rodrigo de Triana
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Who discovered whom?
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America?
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• America?
• San Salvador?
• India?
• Japan?
• Guanahani?

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America
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India
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Really San Salvador
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Japan
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Really was Cuba
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Guanahani
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Mark Twain

• Now, Columbus started out to discover America.
  Well, he didn't need to do anything at all but
  sit in the cabin of his ship and hold his grip
  and sail straight on, and America would discover
  itself. Here it was, barring his passage the
  whole length and breadth of the South American
  continent, and he couldn't get by it. He'd got
  to discover it.

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Mark Twain

• October 12, the Discovery. It was wonderful to
  find America, but it would have been more
  wonderful to miss it.

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Arawak/Taino

• Second expedition to Haiti 1495 250,00 Indians
  inhabited the island
• 1497 175,00 Indians inhabited Haiti
• 1515 50,000 Indians inhabited Haiti
• 1550 500 Indians inhabited Haiti
• 1650 report none of the original Arawaks or
  descendents were left on island

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History To Inquire

• Facts demonstrable evidence
• Narrative the linking of facts into a story
• (Which facts are important? Which events cause
  other events? Is there causality? Social
  factors? Economic factors? Environmental
  factors? History of great men or people?
  History of wars or cultures?)

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Howard Zinn

• All history is a narrative with bias
• Historians distortions are ideological
  economic, political, racial, national, sexual.
• Not accuse, judge, condemn Columbus in absentia.
• Question the assumptions about history for
  example Is genocide acceptable?

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