Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus's 1492 voyage across the Atlantic impacted the world forever. His endeavor was incredible; the first man to reach what he thought was Asia from the east. A feat that seemed impossible, but he achieved it with great success for himself and his country of Spain. But the people of the Americas that he so inadvertently exposed to the European's were left in ruins. Christopher Columbus was a plague brought upon innocent people that changed their lives forever. Christopher Columbus falls short of a heroic man in terms of his maltreatment to the Indians, and achieves the state of a treasure seeker who had a great deal of luck. The people of the "new world" brought no hostility towards Columbus and his men. They greeted Columbus and his men with open arms. The Indian peoples welcomed Europeans warmly, provided them with food, and taught them important new survival skills. In some cases, they perceived them as being divine, or at least spiritually powerful. Native peoples were quickly disillusioned by treachery or mistreatment at European hands. Columbus, knowing of their cynicism, used this to his advantage. Columbus wrote in his log "They...brought us parrots and balls of cotton and spears and many other things, wh
With no cures or medicine, the diseases spread rapidly killing all in their path. The only gold around was bits of dust in the streams. Back in the "new world", too many of the slaves were dying. The European's hold many immunities to various diseases that the natives did not. Prior to his voyage, he had promised to return with a substantial quantity of gold and spices. What he was too ignorant to notice was that these people had their own religion, and had no intention of converting. So Columbus became more desperate to fill his ships with gold. Columbus and his men rounded up 1500 Arawak men, women, and children and kept them in pens guarded by Spaniards and dogs. So Columbus and his men ordered all Indians to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. In addition too the tools and goods that Columbus and his men brought to the "new world," they brought disease and animals which took the land my storm. Of those 500, only 300 survived the trip. His voyage was not a discovery, but a conquest of a weaker civilization. All who did not want to convert were brutally forced or killed. They do not bear arms, and do not know them, for I showed them a sword, they took it by the edge and cut themselves out of ignorance.
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