Christopher Columbus

• Christopher Columbus
was born in 1451, to a
family of wool
weavers.
• When he was a young
man he went to sea
and became an
experienced sailor
Columbus Setting Sail in 1492

• Christopher Columbus
departed on his first
journey in search of a
quicker route to Asia.
• Here, Columbus takes
leave of Ferdinand V and
Isabella, the king and
queen of Castile, who
sponsored his first
expedition.
He sailed from Spain in 1492 with three
ships, the Nina,
the Pinta and the Santa Maria.
 Eating on the Ship
• The menu for Spanish
seamen consisted of water, • Food, mostly boiled, was
vinegar, olive oil, molasses, served in a large wooden
cheese, honey, raisins, rice, bowl. They would pick it
garlic, almonds, sea up with their fingers as
biscuits , dry legumes such they had no forks or
as chickpeas, lentils, spoons. The larger pieces
beans, salted and barreled of meat were cut with a
sardines, anchovies, dry knife.
salt cod and pickled or • Fish was cheaper than
salted meats (beef and meat and was served
pork), salted flour. more often.
 Sighting Land

• After sailing across

the Atlantic Ocean for
10 weeks land was
sighted by a sailor
named Rodrigo
Bernajo.
 On this voyage Columbus encountered the
islands which became known as the West
Indies, in the Caribbean Sea.

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Columbus’s Arrival in the
Americas
• On October 12, 1492,
Christopher Columbus and his
crew made their first landfall in
the Americas, on a small island
in The Bahamas. In a solemn
ceremony before an audience
of uncomprehending islanders,
Columbus claimed the island
for Spain and named it San
Salvador (Holy Savior).
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