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 me
If they did not give him this gold(simply because their wasn't that much gold on the islands) he would order to have their hands cut off, and they would bleed to death. 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. I was very attentive to them, and strove to learn if they had any gold. Columbus was not a true explorer, but he was a conqueror or people. Weapons they have none, nor are acquainted with them, for I showed them swords which they grasped by the blades, and cut themselves through ignorance. 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. There is an old saying that says,"Might makes right", and the explorers back then, would go sailing around with this idea in their heads, that as soon as they came to a land that they had never seen before, they could just put up their flag and claim it. This opened up the slave trade in Africa. This is one proof of Christopher Columbus being a conqueror. Many of the natives never encountered sickness before, and didn't have the immunities.
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