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Christopher Columbus Notes

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1. Christopher Columbus was an ________________ explorer who realized the world was ________________. He sailed across the _____________________ Ocean in ______________. Columbus was hoping to find a _____________ to India in order to trade for ___________________. Columbus sailed for King ________________________ II and Queen ___________________ of ____________________. He made a total of ___________________ trips to the Caribbean and South ______________________.

2. On his first trip, Columbus led an ___________________ with three ships, the __________________, the _________________ and the _____________________. On ___________________ 11, ______________, they spotted the _______________________ islands of the southeastern coast of __________________ _____________________. Columbus later renamed it _________ ____________________. Columbus thought he had made it to _______________ and called this area the __________________ and called its inhabitants _____________________. Many of the Indians were ____________________ by Columbus’ men and later sold into ______________________. While they were looking for ________________, they traveled to the islands of Hispaniola, ________________ and many other smaller___________________.

3. On a second expedition, Columbus sailed with _________________ ships to find _______________ and to ___________________ Indians as ______________ in the Indies.

4. On a third expedition, Columbus sailed farther _________________ to Trinidad and ____________________. Columbus was the first _____________________ since the __________________ Leif Ericsson landed on the mainland of _______________________. On the fourth and final expedition, Columbus sailed to ____________________, Honduras and Panama in Central ____________________. Columbus is buried in ____________________ Hispaniola (now called the Dominican Republic).