By: Grace Stabile

The year 1492
 Colombus sailed the
Pacific Ocean from
Europe & discovered
America
 In Rome, pope
Alexander VI from
Aragon began his reign
 Ferdinand & Isabella
were in rule at the time
The Moorish palace of
Alhambra in Granada, Spain

The year 1492
 In 1453 Ottoman was
established as the
capital of Istanbul
 Istanbul is known as
“the place that is like
paradise”
Istanbul, Turkey

The year 1492
 The “Spice Islands were
known for their cloves,
they were prized by
Europeans for their
flavor and often used
on meats.
 Different spices and
nutmeg were found on
the island.
The Cedar Forest in
Lebanon

The year 1492
 The compass was
invented in China &
became indispensable to
Columbus.
 Paper was invented and
in later years was traded
with Europe for other
goods. The Chinese
mainly used it for
ceremonial & religious
occasions.
Outside of the Forbidden
City in Beijing, China

The year 1492
 In the western hemisphere
the ancient Mayan
civilization, which long
predated the Aztecs, had no
centralized authority in
1492
 Having little mainland left
to conquer, the Inca
himself, or a delegated
commander, set out on a
naval expedition to the
bleak Galapagos Islands but
turned back empty-handed.
Map of the Western
Hemisphere

The year 1492
 Expanded food
resources ran low
because of the growing
populations, 70 percent
of humanity depended
upon merely 7 percent of
land under cultivation.
 Wheat became a low yield
crop that required human
labor and animals for the
soil.
Wheat crop

The year 1492
 By 1492 merely a handful of
northern Italian city-states
retained their
independence.
 In Milan, Leonardo da Vinci
built his model of an
enormous equestrian statue
for Duke Ludovico Sforza
and jotting into his secret
notebooks scientific
observations and a sketch
of a bat-wing flying
machine.

The year 1492
 The Nina and the Pinta
were agile caravels; the
Santa Maria, a
lumbering carrack, hit
a reef and sank on
Christmas eve, 1492.
The Nina was said to
have been Columbus's
favorite ship.
Christopher Colombus