Урок-презентация "Христофор Колумб"
презентация к уроку по английскому языку (9 класс) на тему

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Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer. He was born on the 31 st of October, 1451, in Genoa.

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He completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean that led to general European awareness (осведомленность) of the American continents.

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Those voyages, and his efforts to establish permanent settlements initiated the Spanish colonization of the New World.

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During his first voyage in 1492, Columbus landed in the Bahamas archipelago. Over the course of three more voyages, he visited the Caribbean coast of Venezuela and Central America, claiming them for the Spanish Empire.

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Though Columbus wasn’t the first European explorer to reach the Americas, his voyages led to the first European contact with the Americas, exploration, conquest and colonization that lasted for several centuries.

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They had an enormous impact in the historical development of the modern Western world. Columbus himself saw his accomplishment (достижение) primarily (изначально) in the light of spreading Christian religion.

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Never admitting that he had reached a continent previously ( до этого) unknown to Europeans, Columbus called the inhabitants of the lands he visited “Indians”.

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Christopher Columbus died on the 20 th of May, 1506, at the age of 54.