1. Columbus Debate Should Columbus’s discovery of the New World be:
Celebrated as a triumph?
Or denounced as a tyranny?

2. Christopher Columbus
Columbus sails to the New World in

3. Exchange
Goods are exchanged

4. Disease
Natives contract small pox

5. Slavery Slaves and slavery changed the New World forever.
Huge numbers of slaves and natives die from disease and overworking. 7 years is the average life span of a slave working in a plantation.

6. Colonies in the New World
European nations compete to set up
colonies for:
*religious reasons
*desire for land
*economic opportunity & power!

7. The Exchange Changed the World
The Potato Eaters
Vincent van Gogh

8. What in the World???? You Make the Connection Makudonarudo
And the Age of Exploration??
You Make the Connection
Makudonarudo

9. Debate format
How to ask a question
How to refer to a delegate

10. Debate Should Columbus’s discovery of the New World be:
In two groups compile a list of arguments from your notes for your assigned topic.
Should Columbus’s discovery of the New World be:
Celebrated as a triumph?
Or denounced as a tyranny?