[ORDER SOLUTION] Christopher Columbus Assignment
HIS 101- Christopher Columbus Assignment Due Date is posted on the Calendar After viewing the film Christopher Columbus: The Discovery (1992), re-read Chapter 14 of your text and then view the articles and original source documents regarding Christopher Columbus and his voyages found in the textbook companion site for Chapter 14 and on the following two web-links: Christopher Columbus’ Journal [extracts] (1492) http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook1z.html http://www.historyguide.org/earlymod/columbus.html After viewing the film and these materials, write an essay (3 pages min.) analyzing the motives behind the voyages of Christopher Columbus and other explorers of the Age of Exploration. How does the actions depicted in the film relate to the information found in the primary source documents? Is the film historically correct? What were the motives of the King and Queen of Spain in agreeing to finance the voyage? What role did religion and economic considerations play in the voyages of discovery and conquest of the Americas? How would you characterize Spanish rule? How did the Spanish view the New World and its peoples? Why didn’t the natives initially resist Spanish rule? How did the natives view the Spanish? How did the experiences between natives, the Spanish, Portuguese, English & French differ?
