THE STORY OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS 1940s EDUCATIONAL FILM 68044
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- Опубликовано: 8 окт 2023
- This 1948 film, from Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, dramatizes the story of Christopher Columbus, starting with his childhood years in Genoa up to landing at what became San Salvador. Columbus as a young boy plays with his brother in Genoa. The film shows the sea port of the Italian republic. In a store, Columbus talks with a merchant sailor. Other merchants talk to Columbus about sailing the world. As a young man, Columbus charts a course to the west on a map (03:28). Columbus and his brother Bartholomew discuss sailing to Cathay via a westward route. King John II of Portugal reclines while eating fruit as he tells Columbus he’s not interested in financing the expedition (05:50). Columbus sits with his son just off a dirt road when he is greeted by a Spanish friar. Viewers see a Spanish mission (07:51); inside, Columbus talks with the friar. The film shows what appears to be a Spanish cathedral, presumably one in Aragon (08:28). King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Queen Isabella I of Castile listen to Columbus and the Treasurer of Aragon petition for support for the voyage. A Spanish soldier rides up on a horse to stop Columbus as he walks to France (11:07). The film shows Columbus overseeing the construction of a ship. A ship (presumably the carrack Santa Maria) is out at sea (13:04). On deck members of the crew sit around a fire. Columbus and his men celebrate the sighting of land (14:30). They go ashore in a small boat with the standards of Ferdinand and Isabella. The Spanish sailors meet with the indigenous people of the island Columbus names San Salvador, concluding the film.
Christopher Columbus (before 31 October 1451 - 20 May 1506) was an Italian explorer, navigator, and colonist who completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean under the auspices of the Catholic Monarchs of Spain. He led the first European expeditions to the Caribbean, Central America, and South America, initiating the permanent European colonization of the Americas. Columbus discovered the viable sailing route to the Americas, a continent which was not then known to the Old World. While what he thought he had discovered was a route to the Far East, he is credited with the opening of the Americas for conquest and settlement by Europeans.
Columbus's early life is somewhat obscure, but scholars generally agree that he was born in the Republic of Genoa and spoke a dialect of Ligurian as his first language. He went to sea at a young age and travelled widely, as far north as the British Isles (and possibly Iceland) and as far south as what is now Ghana. He married a Portuguese woman and was based in Lisbon for several years, but later took a Spanish mistress; he had one son with each woman. Though largely self-educated, Columbus was widely read in geography, astronomy, and history. He formulated a plan to seek a western sea passage to the East Indies, hoping to profit from the lucrative spice trade.
After years of lobbying, the Catholic Monarchs of Spain agreed to sponsor a journey west, in the name of the Crown of Castile. Columbus left Spain in August 1492 with three ships, and after a stopover in the Canary Islands made landfall in the Americas on 12 October (now celebrated as Columbus Day). His landing place was an island in the Bahamas, known by its native inhabitants as Guanahani; its exact location is uncertain. Columbus subsequently visited Cuba and Hispaniola, establishing a colony in what is now Haiti-the first European settlement in the Americas since the Norse colonies almost 500 years earlier. He arrived back in Spain in early 1493, bringing a number of captive natives with him. Word of his discoveries soon spread throughout Europe.
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Why does the USA have a "Columbus Day"? When Columbus never set foot in the USA.
Because there was 11 Italian immigrants who were hung by a mob just because they were Italian. At the time it happened it was world news. In order to save the diplomatic relationships and to calme tensions with immigrants, the holiday was founded.
Happy Viking Lief Erikson Day!
This is the story I’ve been waiting for!
Maybe he lived in Genoa, but he was born in Cuba, Portugal, and was a Sephardic jew (spanish, or portuguese descent). He discovered the country of Cuba, and the same towns around there, he named the same names, in the country of Cuba. I enjoyed the film, thank you for posting it, have to subscribe!
Two fingers deep.
Mis-ter Christopher Columbus, sailed the sea without a compass. When his crew raised a rumpus, up spoke Christopher Columbus...
In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue!
@@jaminova_1969 What I say, yeah!
Hey Columbus, The Coast has been mapped already.
"Yes! Our America! Named after Christop... Amerigo Vespucci! ... Who most Americans have never heard of including the scriptwriters apparently. "
It's the New Florida Public School curriculum.
Happy Columbus Day. Though he did die in prison if I remember correctly
No, he died in a house in Villadolid in 1506. A free, if broken man.
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That's not chris's words.
God bless Christopher Columbus.
nota ball
No one believed you could "sail off the edge." 2:14
They (Mayan, Greeks, Roman, Hebrews, Babylonian, etc...virtually everyone) believed:
*1.* Earth was covered a dome/firmament
*2.* A river encircled all land... Circumnavigation.
(Greeks called it The Titan-god Oceanus)
*3.* Sun/Moon were literally IN the sky.
(Apollo/Artemis riding their chariots)
*4.* The stars are in the firmament.
Earth is a realm and _waters cover the face of the deep._ "Outer space" is a relatively new idea.
"Sailing off the edge" is probably just a fun myth/story we learn like: Issac Newton being the first man in history to see something fall and say, _"What? NO WAY. How does that happen?
Medieval people often lacked this historical knowledge. They certainly did not know of the writings of the Mayans, Ancient Mesopotamia, et al.
@@Sennmut
Exactly. It makes you wonder why many of tlheir beliefs overlap. This one is understandable.
If we weren't taught the heliocentric worldview, we would also believe the sun is literally in the sky (as it appears to be) and that the constellations (which have never changed in all of human history) are attached to a dome.
In fact, right now in 2023, in order to do celestial navigation you must _pretend_ the following are true:
*1.* The Earth is not moving
*2.* The stars are attached to a rotating dome/firmament.
*3.* The sun and moon are "in the sky"
*4.* The constellations have never/will never change.
It was thought up thousands of years ago and still used today... Like clockwork. They also used this worldview to predict eclipses hundreds of years in advance.
Eratosthenes used a few sticks to calculate the circumference of the earth over 2000 years ago, so a spherical earth was not a new idea at the time of Columbus.
@@littleshopofelectrons4014 Very true. Sadly, some people are so wedded to the idea of our ancestors being "primitive", they don't look much deeper. Good observation!
God bless Christopher Columbus. A great sailor, adventurer, and discoveror.
A Christian Pirate who enslaved and destroyed peoples lives for an Evil Queen who started the Spanish Inquisition. Columbus, the Greedy Wealth Hoarding Colonizer is rotting in hell.
Columbus was not even worth calling human.
The fact that that evil piece of toxic garbage ever got a holiday says a lot
I do advocate for paid holidays though.
American workers deserve them.
Happy Columbus day!
It's good that this was saved for historical purposes. The real interesting story here would be: "Who wrote / pushed this myth?". I was taught this myth in the mid 60's too.
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Laughable distortion of history. They left out the part about the murder, rape, and enslaving of the native people. Ironically, he didn't discover America, he "discovered" the West Indies. Here is a song that we learned in grade school.
In fourteen hundred and ninety two,
Columbus sailed the ocean blue,
He sailed and sailed and sailed and sailed,
Until he found this land for me and you.
This fairy tale would be an excellent candidate for MST3K or RiffTrax. 😁
Happy Indigenous Peoples Day!
In 1487, the Aztecs completed the Great Pyramid of Tenochtitlan and held a massive celebration to inaugurate their great temple. According to some post-conquest sources, the Aztecs sacrificed about **80,400 prisoners** over the course of four days during the re-consecration of the Great Pyramid of Tenochtitlan ¹². However, this number is considered by Ross Hassig, author of Aztec Warfare, to be an exaggeration ¹. Human sacrifice was common in many parts of Mesoamerica, so the rite was nothing new to the Aztecs when they arrived at the Valley of Mexico, nor was it something unique to pre-Columbian Mexico. Other Mesoamerican cultures, such as the Purépechas and Toltecs, and the Maya performed sacrifices as well and from archaeological evidence, it probably existed since the time of the Olmecs (1200-400 BC), and perhaps even throughout the early farming cultures of the region ¹.
The Aztecs notably sacrificed elements of their own population to the gods. In 1519, explorers such as Hernán Cortés conquered the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan and made observations of and wrote reports about the practice of human sacrifice. Bernal Díaz del Castillo, who participated in the Cortés expedition, made frequent mention of human sacrifice in his memoir True History of the Conquest of New Spain ¹²³. There are a number of second-hand accounts of human sacrifices written by Spanish friars that relate to the testimonies of native eyewitnesses. The literary accounts have been supported by archeological research. Since the late 1970s, excavations of the offerings in the Great Pyramid of Tenochtitlan and other archaeological sites have provided physical evidence of human sacrifice among Mesoamerican peoples ¹²³. As of 2020, archaeologists have found **603 human skulls** at Hueyi Tzompantli in the archeological zone of Templo Mayor ¹².
Human sacrifice was a common theme in Aztec culture. In "Legend of Five Suns," all gods sacrificed themselves so that mankind could live. Some years after Spanish conquest of Aztec Empire, a body of Franciscans confronted remaining Aztec priesthood and demanded that they desist from this traditional practice. The Aztec priests defended themselves by saying that life is because of gods; with their sacrifice, they gave us life. They produce our sustenance which nourishes life ¹.
Source: Conversation with Bing, 10/9/2023
(1) Human sacrifice in Aztec culture - Wikipedia. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_sacrifice_in_Aztec_culture.
(2) 10 Horrors Of Aztec Ritual Human Sacrifice - Listverse. listverse.com/2016/12/20/10-horrors-of-aztec-ritual-human-sacrifice/.
(3) Aztec human sacrifice was a bloody, fascinating mess - Quartz. qz.com/374994/aztec-sacrifice-was-real-and-its-not-fetishistic-to-be-fascinated-by-it.
(4) Aztec Sacrifice Timeline - World History Encyclopedia. www.worldhistory.org/timeline/Aztec_Sacrifice/.
(5) The Templo Mayor: A place for human sacrifices - BBC Culture. www.bbc.com/culture/article/20150227-a-place-for-human-sacrifices.
not a real thing.
Can I laugh now or later?
Utter nonsense!
Christopher the jew.😅
Lol