Columbus Project

Group 1 Motives
political motives
It is easier for countries that had a coastline.The Europeans found Asia and they found it valuable things there like spices.
They liked spices a lot. They wanted to find a route to Asia to get these spices, then they could sell it for a High price. they also wanted to find gold and silver, these kinds of treasures..
Religion Motives
Crusades- in late 1400s
There was only one religion in Europe Christianity.
Knowledge motives
They had no idea how large the world is.
They thought the earth was flat.
Gain knowledge that there were other countries too.
Myths
Ponce de Leon found Florida but he was looking for the island of Bemini
He was looking for the fountain of youth
There were other myths like the 7 cities of gold
Rating: 9 out of 10

4th Group Navigation
Columbus wasn't the first person to discover America.

They had to use astrolobe, compass.
The sailors had to be well educated, smart.
They used sandglass, to record information about how long the trips took.
Pole stone: basically a compass it shows the way.
Compass rows: 32 points on a compass. When a young boy went to sea, they had to know how to use it, and the way to use it.
Celestial navigations
Observe the sun, moon, stars to measure the distance from one place to another.
Columbus used, quadrant , astrolobe, compass.
Astrolabe and quadrant only could measure vertical angles.
I think their way of presenting was fine, only I couldn't hear a few people.
Rating 8 out of 10

Navigation 2 group
Columbus discovered islands he thought were near Asia .
A pilot would stay in a specific area. They were only an expert in a specific area
Chart was called portolan.
Gave info where the ports were.
People believed there were mermaids in the sea that would distract the sailors.
The Europeans didn't have too much information about the oceans.These were some of their myths. They thought there was only one ocean. They didn't know much about Asia.
I think they did an ok job. They could have given a little more info.
Rating: 8 out of 10.

3 types of boats
Santa maria- 75 ft long, 25 feet wide, 400 tons
Nina
Pinta

Capabilities
Santa Maria- carry cargo, fat,heavy deep draft
Nina,Pinta- smaller,
These boats didn't have engines
They moved by the power of wind.
Bow- front part of the ship
Stern- back part of a ship
The sails were made out of cloth.

Town Myths of Taiwan

Once upon a time , there was a city by the name of Taichong. This city got it's name in a very unusual way by a very special person. There was once a boy by the name of Little Chong. He came from a very small family, only he and his mom. His father died unfortunately because of overwork. So Little Chong had to support his mom. He had to start working from a young to help earn money. Little Chong and his mom used to work in the fields the whole day, from early morning to late at night. Little Chong vowed to get revenge for his father. After a few years, now Little Chong has become an adult.
He decided to make a plan how to seek revenge for his father. He worked really hard on this. He got many people to join him to seek revenge. He got his friends and his mom all to support him. And then one night everyone got together and they went to their boss' house at night and they protested about overwork how they have to work from early morning to late at night. They protested about how that was not fair at all. There were so many people, and they boss was so frightened he had no choice but to surrender and give the people what they asked for. Little Chong was the leader since he arranged it.Everyone was so proud of Little Chong that they ultimately named the city after him. Tai- for Taiwan and Chong for Little Chong. So this is the story of how Taichong got it's name.

Myth skits

At first we saw a skit where there was a big bear and a person from a village. It was really funny. The way that the bear got killed was by an arrow. There was a fight scene between the bear and the villager too. The way that they presented the skit was very funny. And and the end the person who killed the bear became the chief of the village.
Then the second skit was our skit. It was really fun to present it. Everyone was laughing a lot. Angel and I played the role of the villagers who were planning to kill the bear and then eat it for a ceremony.Sian and Eddie played the role of hunters who killed the bear. And Anderson played the role of a girl bear. It was funny because some of us didn't completely remember the lines and we needed to use the iPad. Then one of the hunters killed the bear and the bear dies. Then the other hunter got married to the bear who got turned into a human. It was a very funny story.
Then the last story was about a bird who is the chosen one to defeat another bird or something like that. Then that bird is isolated and goes through a lot of training and finally defeats the bad bird. This story was ok but I didn't really like it that much. I liked the first and second story more than the third story.

Listening video

Today we watched a video about how people listen to each other nowadays. The truth is that people don't listen as much nowadays. People only listen to things that matter to them,like the person they are talking with, or they might listen to music on their headphones.People don't even have to talk as much because there are things like e-mail. If you think about it, it's actually not such a good thing. Because they are not interacting as much they are just using different types of technology to communicate with others.