Canaries to the Caribbean (October 7, 1997)
Canaries to the Caribbean 1402-1506: Outline
Norse expansion in the North Atlantic (text and archaeological evidence): Bjarni Herjolfsson, 985-6 Icelander Torfinnr Karlsefni
Maritime expansion: Mediterranean, Africa, and the Atlantic
Martin Behaim’s world globe, 1492
Portuguese expansion: Cape Verde and SãoTome
The Virgin of the Mariners protects Mediterranean galleys as well as the Atlantic caravels that gather in Seville
Arawak, native peoples of the Caribbean: Tainos and Caribs
Tainos, agriculturalists: Northern islands, 200 BC -1200 AD.
Linguistic legacy: barbacoa (barbecue), batata (sweet potato), cacique (chief), canoa, hamaca (hammock), maguey (cactus), maiz, etc.
First European Images, 1493 (accompanying Columbus’s letter)
Christopher Columbus (b. ca. 1451, d. 1506), Genoese
(virtual image from www.ipf.tuwien.ac.at/ veroeffentlichungen/ld_p_ch96_vrml/behaim.wrl) Martin Behaim’s world globe, 1492
Behaim placed Japan too close too Europe and too far from Asia
A schematic of Behaim’s globe: W. & C. Phillips The Worlds of Christopher Columbus
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Columbus’s coat of arms. The capitulaciones: “discover and acquire islands and Mainlands in the Ocean Sea”
Columbus’s 4 voyages
Four voyages
Voyages 3 and 4 (detail)
Destruction of the Indies
Tainos panning gold
The Black Legend
Americas 1562
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