Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus is the most well known explorer by most school age children. When children are young, teachers tell them that Columbus was a very good person, a hero even. To be politically correct though, Christopher Columbus brought death and destruction with him to the Americas. He stole , killed, and tortured the natives. Christopher Columbus was not a true explorer, but he was a conqueror of people. When Christopher Columbus set out on his voyage(August 3rd, 1492) to find a new route to the Indies there was no way that he could know that it would turn out the way it did. When he landed at the Caribbean Islands(October 12th, 1492), the people there were scared, but still friendly toward him. This next quote is from Columbus' journal: "As I saw that they were very friendly to us, and perceived that they could be much more easily converted
to our holy faith by gentle means than by force,. I was very attentive to them, and strove to learn if they had any gold. More than 11 million slaves were taken from Africa by the 1800's!!!!As you can see through my essay, I believe that Christopher Columbus was a conqueror of people. Some people died from the flu! The population decreased from 1 million to 1,000 in the matter of 100 years from Christopher Columbus' orders. Columbus tried to use the natives as slaves but they were too frail. This opened up the slave trade in Africa. He ordered the natives to proclaim him governor of the lands. But they seemed on the whole to me, to be a very poor people. If they escaped, then he would hunt them down with dogs. This is not exploring, and this is exactly what Christopher Columbus is recognized every October 11th for.
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