Lesson One: Christopher Columbus and Giovanni Da Verrazzano
Subjects: U.S. History, World History, World Languages
Description:
Students will examine when the Portuguese and Spanish explored alternate ways to reach Oriental spice markets and how Italian sailors, cartographers, and navigators offered their considerable skills as seamen to find a western route to the Indies. Cristoforo Colombo was the first Italian to cross the Atlantic. Giovanni da Verrazzano also made great voyages west, and was the first European to look upon the New Jersey coast and sail into what became the New York harbor.
http://www.njitalianheritage.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Columbus-Verrazzano.pdf
