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
All who did not want to convert were brutally forced or killed. When the Spaniards were ready, they picked the 500 best to load onto the ships. Before long slavery facilities were set up at the Island of Hispanola, and slavery was at its ill-fated peak. Columbus brought slavery to a whole new level in the "new world. The European's hold many immunities to various diseases that the natives did not. 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. When the diseases spread to the people, they died with no reasoning behind it. Christopher is a far cry from a hero. In Africa, Columbus found many more people, who had superior working skills. But he went on his way, converting all he could to Christianity. So they fled, and many were hunted down and killed. Columbus and his men rounded up 1500 Arawak men, women, and children and kept them in pens guarded by Spaniards and dogs. Of those 500, only 300 survived the trip.
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