Victoria is a History student in Newbridge College.

2. WALT 
 The causes of Christopher Columbus’s
voyage's
 The key events
 The results

3. THE CAUSES OF HIS VOYAGE’S 
1. Europeans needed to find a new route to the spice
islands and to avoid war countries .
2. They saw this as an opportunity to explore and claim
new land .
3. They also saw it as an opportunity to spread
Christianity .
4. There were myths and legends about places in Africa
made out of gold and they wanted to claim this gold
for the king and queen .
5. They wanted to map out the world better and explore
more of the world .

4. THE CAUSES OF HIS VOYAGES 
6. He wanted to show people that the world not
flat .
7. He promised the king and queen herbs , spices
and gold .
8. Europe was running out of land to conquer and
livestock to eat .
9. On his second voyage he went back to rescue
his men and search for more gold .

5. KEY EVENTS
o King Ferdinand and queen Isabella of Spain
funded him on his voyage .
o They gave him 3 ships the Nina , the Pinta and
the Santa Maria and 80 -90 men to serve as
crew members on his ships .
o He set sail on the 3rd of August 1492 .
o He found land on the 12th of October 1492 .
o He thought he was in Asia and named the area
the Indies and called the inhabitants Indians .

6. KEY EVENTS 
o At first the native Americans were
pleased to see the visitors as Columbus
gave them cheep presents and bells , but
he also claimed their land for Spain !!!
o On Christmas night 1493 the Santa Maria
was wrecked it had hit a reef .Columbus left
40 men behind in a makeshift settlement on
Hispaniola ( present-day Haiti and the
Dominic Republic ) , while he returned to
Spain .

7. KEY EVENT 
o On his second voyage (1493-96) he returned to
Hispaniola with 17 ships and over 1000 settlers .
o His third voyage (149-96) ended in disaster when he
was sent back to Spain in chains .He had quarrelled
with the governor of Hispaniola .
o During his fourth voyage (1502-04) he warned a
different governor of Hispaniola about a hurricane
, however the governor did not listen and 24 ships
were lost . Columbus regarded his fourth voyage as
his greatest .

8. KEY EVENT 
o People from Europe sailed to America to start
colonies. Some wanted to make the natives become
Christians
o They began to treat the native Americans badly
,they made many of them work as slaves .
o Columbus sailed to America for the fourth time in
1502 . He was still hoping to land in China . This
time he explored central America . His ships were
too leaky to sail home , so he had to wait a year
before being rescued .
o When he finally got back to Spain he was very sick
and died in 1506

9. TIME – LINE AND MAPS 
born set sail discovered north America returned home second voyage third voyage
voyage died
1451 AD
1492
12 oct 1492
1493
1493-96
1498-1500
forth
1502-04
1506

10. TIME – LINE AND MAPS 

11. THE END RESULTS 
 He inspired Amerigo Vespucci to lead voyages
to the what he called the “New World” , the new
lands were named after him America .
 After his voyages more sailors started to keep
logs .
 He proved the world was not flat but round .
 The improvement of their navigational skills
and ship building

12. Questions