Year 8 Renaissance Day  Discovering the ‘lost world’
Christopher Columbus Good Guy/Bad Guy?

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Objective: To raise our awareness of the Geography of the Renaissance and how exploration and mapping shaped understanding of the modern world.

Background Tasks  Watch the video at the top of the page first (note it is from the 1960's and so is very different from a cartoon that you would see today)
Tasks - To find out how the voyages of the Renaissance period have helped to shape and change our understanding of the world.

You will be completing a short investigation where you will find out about the reasons why C.C travelled west and the places that he discovered on three separate voyages.