Christopher Columbus : Factors And Contributions In The Devastation Of The Native Americans

Columbus, Spanish settlers, and English settlers directly impacted the Native Americans and Africans. First, Columbus impacted the Native Americans he met when he travelled back and forth to the Indies, between the times 1492 and 1504. Columbus travelled to the Indies to find and govern land, and to also make money. Doing so, Columbus severely punished Indians for not hitting harsh quotas of gold, he sold them into slavery, and he, his crew, and other Spanish settlers unintentionally brought infectious diseases. Because of this, the Native Americans suffered forced labor and great casualties, thus extremely altering their lifestyles. Second, English settlers began to affect the Native Americans when they arrived to Virginia in 1607. When the

Native American Life Pre-Contact- There were many diverse Native American people before the arrival of Europeans. I am talking about Native American societies before Columbus' arrival in 1492. Most Native American communities organized as tribes with their environment severely impacting and shaping their lives. Native Americans in the Southwest had a strong agricultural society with maize being a staple food, an example being the Hopi in modern day Arizona. Those in the Northwest and Great Plains had more of a hunter gatherer society because of the lack of natural resources and also were more nomadic, not having permanent settlements like the Southwest and Eastern Native Americans. Eastern Native Americans had a mix of hunter gatherer and

While trying to adapt Native Americans to European customs, Columbus and his followers took advantage of the Indians. The Spanish burned the Natives sacred objects and would not allow them to practice their own religions. They also abused the Natives, enslaving them, taking land from them, and raping their women. Because of the conquistadors quest for gold and other riches,

All my life, I have been hearing about Christopher Columbus. Since little, first, my family talking about him, then in school learning about him. I really thought he was a hero. The way they teach you about him in grammar school or middle school makes you think he really is a hero. But later on, doing research on him, looking for what he really did, where did he came from etc. I realize that he is not a hero. There are many reasons why people think he is good as well there are many reasons why they think he is bad. Personally I think Columbus is a villain, he did a lot of bad things that most people don’t know a bout. However if they know them, it would make them think a little bit deeper if Columbus is the Hero

For years, the Native Americans lived a very solitary life with their own unique way of living, that was until the European’s showed up with their very complex way of living. Harmony with nature was a very important aspect of Native American culture. The Native people embraced nature with no intention to modify it unlike the Europeans. They simply cared more about nature and what it had to offer. The spiritual connection between the land and these Natives were distinctive from the Europeans also due to the fact that to the settlers, land meant wealth. As a European, if you owned any land you were considered a wealthy upper class human being. As a Native, no one owned the land and anyone could benefit from the land.

Zinn argues that the perspective of indigenous people should not be omitted and argues that their perspectives are as significant as any other. He provides insight and perspectives of the Indians to describe how the heinous acts of the Europeans were unjustified. He also discusses that the Europeans had a continual motive of exploring during that time which was to increase the power/authority of the Spanish Crown by whatever means necessary, usually leading to violent wars.

The Native Americans had settled in the land years before the arrival of the Euro-Americans. Hundreds of Native American groups occupied the land, each tribe with its separate culture, language, and spiritual way-of-life. Despite the many differences, “there was also considerable interaction and dialogue among tribes about spiritual concepts. Through the common language of sign-talk, ideas could be shared and compared among Indian tribes including the spiritual concepts that are an intricate part of the Indian’s everyday experience” (Treat). The Native American culture was primarily oral. Almost all tribes believed in a cosmology or creation myth regarding how this world and the things inhabiting it came to be. Most native peoples worshiped an all-powerful, all-knowing “Master Spirit.” They also revered and placated a host of lesser spirits in hopes of receiving assistance in their daily interactions with the world around them. Often times shamans, who were believed to have supernatural powers through visions, were called upon to communicate and implore the spirits to ensure a good harvest, or victory in warfare, or healing, or interpreting dreams, or other matters of great

Ch.1: Christopher Columbus discovered the New World to European migration. Queen Isabella was funding Christopher Columbus voyage. He convinces the Spain that this would open up better trading routes and it would make them wealthier. ¬¬¬¬¬¬ The Indians were all fascinated with the entire product that the Europeans has. Christopher Columbus and the Conquistadors cheated the Indians and kicked them out of their own land. The Europeans mistreated and executed all the Native Americans that they encountered. The large impact of the invasion was The Europeans captured and used the native Americans as slaves and they brought diseases, weapons, and a hostile desire for the land and control over the new world. The diseases that cause million lives of the Indians were small pox, bubonic plague, influenza, and typhoid. Also the Native Americans were no match for the firearms and explosives of the Europeans. The Native Americans were pushed back into the middle of the United States. The accomplishments of the Spanish in opening the New World to exploration, conquest, and colonization were to gain money, lands, slaves and

From the dawn of mankind to present day, the human race has been a rapidly evolving society. Having begun by developing thousands of languages, then advancing to constructing the tallest artificial structures to exist in present day, humans have obtained countless achievements for not being around for very long compared to other species. Christopher Columbus, unknowingly, discovered a whole new world and started the exploration of the Americas for everyone to come in the future. He opened the gate for the exploration of the Spanish, French, and English in the New World. These three groups of people, while all from different places and of varying mindsets, all colonized in the Americas and had contrasting interactions

Native Americans and Africans suffered horrendous afflictions due to Christopher Columbus, Spanish settlers, and English settlers. First, Columbus destructively affected Native Americans he met when he travelled back and forth to the Indies between 1492 and 1504. Columbus voyaged to the Indies to find land, to govern the land, and to earn money. Doing so, Columbus cruelly murdered the Indians who missed his quotas of gold, sold them into slavery, and along with other Spanish settlers, unintentionally gave them infectious diseases. Due to the Christopher Columbus and Spanish settlers, the Native Americans suffered forced physical labor, innumerable casualties, and perpetually transformed lives. Second, in 1607, English settlers arrived in Virginia

The conquistadores used the native populations to extract the wealth from the ground. The treatment of the natives was inhuman. The natives were being worked to death on their own land for the gain of the europeans. The other hurdle that the natives had to get over was the introduction of european diseases. Most prominently smallpox, these diseases killed entire tribes. Between these two factors the arrival of the europeans ended with man dead natives. To add insult to injury the ones that were left were being stripped of their own culture that the spaniards viewed as inferior. The spanish missionaries were forcing conversions to catholicism the only religion the catholic church allowed in the new world. The natives who continued to practice their own religion were killed as heathens. The constant attack on every aspect of the natives life

In my last assignment I had pointed out that history is both constructed and factual. This is how we must look at Columbus and his successors. While they may have been decent navigators, Columbus landed in the new world and thought it was the Indies so not the greatest, their explorations did bring upon the genocide of the Native Americans. The elementary student in me wants to react to this statement as wrong, he was a hero he founded America. But the more educated part of me knows that this is not true. He was a man that brought death and disease with him when he came to the shores of the north east.

Christopher Columbus, an italian born navigator, commandeered a daring search for India in the name of Spain. His mission was to spread Catholicism and open a Western sea route to trade with India. Columbus accidentally sailed upon what is now Cuba and Hispaniola. Taking advantage of this unexpected occurrence, Columbus brought the Word of God to the heathens living on the islands. Of course, this account before is a grotesque misconception of what was to follow Columbus’s embarkation of the Caribbean and North America: the largest genocide in history. David Stannard’s book, The American Genocide, is an accurate depiction of the events.

After most of their population had been decimated, the remaining Indians were forced into slave labor that worked them to exhaustion. If they refused to work, they would lose their lives. When Columbus first arrived, he viewed the Indians as ignorant, and easily conquered. His first encounter with the Arawak tribe occurred when the two sides exchanged certain items. During this time, Columbus noted how the tribe possessed no iron, beared no arms, and used feeble spears made out of cane. This led to his idea that it would only require 50 men to subdue them all, and force them to do whatever he wished. From Columbus’ point of view, he was thinking as a great explorer that would conquer and use an entire race of people to establish a new civilization,

Our History has been riddled with violent occurrences that are often doctored to appear to be symbolic or significant rather than observed as the bloody atrocities they are. I’ve often wondered what sort of moral transformation have we had to go through to even get to where we are today; Which Unfortunately- Isn’t too far from where we were.