by Elijah

Blue Group

Today's date 1/30/2018

Headline: Voyage of Descovery

Author: Lorenzo Camusso

Source of the Article:

Three Vocabulary Words:

1. Yuka another term for cassava.

2. Arawaken relating to the Arawak people.

3. Khan a title given to rulers and officials in central Asia, Afghanistan, and certain other Muslim countries

Summary: In the article World Of Surprises columbus makes a lot of new Discoveries.some of them were Cuba, The caribbean islands, Royal palms aka palm trees, Tabasco, Different kinds of parrots, Peppers, Sweet potatoes, yuca, Caribbean corn, maize and cotton Hammocks. He brought back cotton, Tabasco, Sweet potatoes, pepers and Yuka He arrived at the southeastern most part of Quba on December 5th. He named it Juana in honor of Ferdinand and Isabella's daughter. Columbus thought he was in Asia somewhere near China, he had no idea that he was actually in South America. The natives he met he called indians, this name was actually an error according to Pietro Martire. columbus observed the scenery around him and called it "paradise". On the islands of Quba Columbus learned that Potatoes and yuca were a large part of the Caribbean diet.