Christopher Columbus

Christopher Columbus
Lucas

Overview
India
4 big travels
Importance of his travels

„India“
He thought it was India
Quinsay (Quin-Sai)
Caribbean islands
Kuba
San Salvador

4 big travels

Importance of his travels
New products from America
Potatoes
Tabaco
Knowledge from the Indians

BARTOLOMEU DIAZ
Adhuresa

SYNOPSIS
• born in 1450
• explored the coast of Africa

Exepedition Around South Africa
• 1488 sailed off the coast of South Africa
• lost at sea during another expedititon

Ferdinand Magellan

Magellan
• Portuguese sailor
• born in 1480
• wanted to try to reach south-east
Asia by sailing westwards through
South America
• left Spain in 1519 with 5 ships & 260
men

What happened in the Pacific?
• Magellan and his men suffered
terrible hunger
• they ran out of fresh food
• many died of scurvy (an illness
caused by a lack of the vitamin C)

His death
• He was killed in a fight with islanders
on 27 th of April 1521
• He had masterminded the first
expedition to sail around the world, but
he didn‘t complete the voyage himself

Jacques Cartier
TANJA

Early life
• was a French navigator
• he was born in Saint-Malo, France in 1491
• died in Saint-Malo in 1557

First voyage
• explored the west coast of Newfoundland
• saild through the Gulf of St. Lawrence
• was sure to have reached an Asian land

Second voyage
• king was impressed
• was welcomed by the Iroquois
• diamonds and gold

John Cabot
L AU R A

facts
•Italian explorer
•→ England – voyages for King Henry

voyages
•1497 sent to find a way to Asia
•found Canada instead
•claimed for England
•1497 – reach Japan – vanished

One of the Greatest Sailors in History

Biography
• 1728 village of Marton Yorkshire England
• He also was an:
• Astronomer
• Explorer
• Marine surveyor
• Simple live
• 18 years
• 14th February (morning)
• Killed by native warriors in Hawai

Places he traveled to
• Australia
• Asia
• Canada
• France
• Hawaii
• Antarctica
• South Africa- and America
• Tahiti
• Myterious statues on Easter Island
and much more
• India
• Norway

LIVING ON A SHIP
Sandra

Content
• What did they wear?
• Where did they sleep?
• What did they eat?

They wore…
• tight, fitted breeches with stocking und buckled
shoes
• white shirts with a vest called waistcoat
• long sleeved jacket
• common sailors dress more casually:
• slops and shirts

Where did they sleep?
• high-ranking members own privat room
• not large but they did offer the men a little bit of privacy
• sailors slept on the mess deck in hammmocks
• they also ate and relaxed there

What did they eat?
• fruits and vegetables were difficult to keep fresh
• dried, hard bread (hard tack)
• dried, salted meat

Marco Polo
A Venetian traveller

Early Life
• Born on 15 September 1254 in Venice
• Born in a family of traders
• family stories of travel and adventures
• two of the biggest loves of his life:
– traveling and trading

The Trip

The later life
• Involved in a naval conflict between Venice and Genoa
• Captured by the Genoese
• Prison meet with the writer Rustichello
• Dictate his story of the travel to China
• Died on 8 January 1324 in Venice

The books
• Extremely popular
• Translated into many other languages
• Under many titles
– The Million
– The Travels of Marco Polo

PEDRO CABRAL
MATTHIAS

• was born 1467 in Belmonte, Portugal
• died 1520 in Santarèm, Portugal
• was a Portuguese navigator and explorer
• He was the discoverer of Brazil
• Portugal set up colonies in Brazil and farmed sugar
cane
• That's the reason why Portuguese is spoken in Brazil

PIRATES OF THE
CARIBBEAN
Magdalena

INFORMATION
Producer: Jerry Bruckheimer
Life and adventures of Captain Jack Sparrow
Famous actors: Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley
4 films till now
2017 – 5th film

THE CURSE OF THE BLACK PEARL
Plans of Sparrow to capture the Black Pearl back
Love between Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann
Curse of Captain Barbossa and his crew

DEAD MAN’S CHEST
Sparrow races to recover the Heart of Davy Jones – avoid
enslaving his soul
Friends and foes search for the heart as well

AT WORLD’S END
Saving Jack Sparrow from the land of the dead
Final fight between Davy Jones and Jack Sparrow

ON STRANGER TIDES
Without Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann
Sparrow crosses paths with a woman from past
Love or ruthless con artist?
Fountain of Youth
Pirate Blackbeard

PIRATES

WHAT ARE PIRATES?
Robbers on the sea

HISTORY
First Pirates more than 3000 years ago
Starting point = Mediteranian sea
Big danger for the trading
Romans started a war against the Pirates
Fighted in the „Holy war“ between the Muslims and Christians

Sir Francis Drake
1540–1596

Sir Francis Drake
• He was an English sea captain, privateer, navigator, slaver, and
politician of the Elizabethan era.
• Drake carried out the second circumnavigation of the world in a
single expedition, from 1577 to 1580.

• 1580: arrived back in England’s Plymouth Harbor
• was honored as the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe
• Queen Elizabeth personally knighted him aboard the Golden Hind

Sir Walter Raleigh
Christian

His Life
*1554
29 th of October 1618 executed
1595 South America expedition
1603 sentenced to death
13 years in prison, free again
Guayana expedition, arrested again
executed