Christopher Columbus Religion

When Columbus landed in the Bahamas in 1492, he thought he reached Asia. He has made himself believe that he has found the New World and that he was the first to inhabit the land. This was not the case as an Indian Tribe, the Arawaks, was swimming to their boats with excitement. As Columbus’s crew arrived on the shores, he was shocked from the Indians hospitality. Columbus was carrying iron swords as the tribes brought gifts, food and water.

     The Indians thought Columbus and his men had come down from Heaven...[and] when           Columbus and the sailors went back to their ships, the Indians followed...Over five           hundred wanted to go; they thought they would reach Heaven in this way.

Christopher Columbus came thinking he found Asia when in fact all he found was the Americas. The ship they were in was called Saint Maria. The first place they landed was Cuba. They were in search for gold mostly, which Columbus promised the king and queen in Spain. He took the Arawaks Indians as slaves when it was hard for him to find gold. When he arrived in Haiti he created the first military base called Navidad which means charismas. Columbus then traveled to the Hispaniola and his thoughts was he arrived in China. He described the Indians as naive and willing to share. Indians did not believe in marriage. To them people may choose who are their mates and if

Columbus’s big plan for Hispaniola since the beginning was to take advantage of the natives and take their land, and the gold he believed was located there. He built the first fort in the Western Hemisphere, and left some of his men to find and store gold there. Columbus had to ask for a little more help from their majesties, he convinced them by saying he would take them “as much gold as they need ... and as many slaves as they ask” (Zinn,6 ) Columbus’s plans affected the natives, in many ways; first of all they were going to lose their land, and also they were going to be taken captive for slave labor.

Jack Weatherford in his essay “Examining the Reputation of Christopher Columbus” proposes the idea that Columbus was not the person who people believe to have accomplished all the things we were told about him at a young age. Weatherford's determination and his persuasiveness can be seen with his use of emotional diction, fluid tone, and the logos juxtaposition of Columbus’s events with others.

Christopher Columbus set sail on a voyage out of the Spanish port of Palos on August 3, 1942. He led three ships; the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria. He had an objective to sail west until he reached Asia (the Indies). However, Columbus trip was taking longer than he expected. He kept two logs of his journey, the first was kept a secret. The second log he kept deceive his crew by under-reporting the true distance they had traveled from Spain. The crew caught on to Christopher Columbus deception on October 10th, and Columbus promised his crew if they had not found land in the next two days that they would return home. The next day land was discovered. The voyage almost never happened because Columbus needed his trip to financed, and everyone

The full measure of Columbus's failure as a colonizer was not yet apparent when he returned to Castile in 1496. Yet by the end of six or seven years of his governorship, with his own, the monarchs', and the settlers' objectives all still unachieved, and Hispaniola suffering an apparently interminable series of rebellions not only by the Indians but by the colonists too, Columbus was to be superseded and disgraced, and shipped home to Spain in chains.1 Overall, Fernandez-Armesto depicted Columbus as an annoyingly eccentric person incapable of succeeding. Although, he discovered the Americas, he failed to be a leader to his crew and the natives. Instead, he was on the lookout for ways of manipulating the motives for profit.

In the movie the director continued to show Columbus as a greedy perpetrator who destroyed the lives of innocent humans and took a land that wasn’t his. Columbus was not seen as a hero who discovered America, the way he was presented in the movie is totally agreeable. It was clear that Columbus thought highly of himself. In his letter addressed to the king, he explains how the Indians believe he was chosen by God. Throughout the movie and in his own written letter, it is clear that his purpose was to get recognition from the King and Queen of Spain. While also trying to get as much gold as possible for his own selfish needs. In The letter of Columbus, he describes himself as being the only one who discovered everything. Furthermore, in the movie scenes of Columbus’s arrival and conquest of the indigenous people, he forces them to convert to Catholicism. They are exploited for seditious outrage. The Indians didn’t mind giving the Spanish gold or being slaves. But when the Spanish started to kill them they had to rebel.

When Columbus sailed on August 3rd, 1492, he did not expect to discover a new land, and a new type of civilization that had previously never been known to exist. As shown in the textbook he was expecting to discover a new trade route to Asia. The natives to the Americas

they were telling you the bad things columbus did instead of trying to portray how good of a person he was doc c telling you what made him a paradox what are the bad things he was doing.it was violent They were destroying there cultures.rite your first paragraph

When in Columbus journal he states that items was given in return for the things the natives gave. Also in his story he says he is a hero because he goes to each island and gives the king something while also exploring the map. In Las Casa’s it states that “reason for killing and destroying such an infinite number of souls is that the Christians have an ultimate aim, which is to acquire gold…”. When Columbus says some was killed to show the power. 3.)

Columbus made an especially daring trip when he set sail for the Indies. He knew he was headed for some rough water, bad weather, and maybe even an unwelcoming crowd of people.

Chapter One Thesis: Even though it is taught in history books and in schools, Christopher Columbus was not a hero but rather a selfish man who used cruel manners in order to obtain what he wanted, harshly killing thousands of Indians. Additionally, the ethics of these manners are not questioned but rather praised for bringing on economic and social progress.

In August of 1492 Christopher Columbus had sailed to the New World in an attempt to gather the riches of Asia under sponsorship of Spanish royalty.^1 Upon his voyage he had discovered the island of Hispaniola, a new nation that would eventually contribute to the largest trade system among Europe and their colonies, known as the Triangular Trade system. This discovery had brought Columbus new found fame and respect as the island was believed to be the rich isles of Sheba that King Solomon had discovered, due to the amount of gold and resources that were found.^2 The riches alone were enough to send for another voyage and to begin the colonization, yet it also began the series of events that would conclude that Christopher Columbus’ arrival was

The people on the island had no clue what a sword was so they would cut themselves when they would touch the blade. Christopher Columbus thought it was going to be easy if needed to fight with them. They had no way of protecting themselves. He and his men ended up killing these poor people little by little. Even when they tried to help them out by directing them to find gold or help them when they got hurt. On his trip when he arrived in Hispaniola the Taino people living on the island welcomed and were gentle with him and his men. When Columbus left the island he left forty of his men and those men raped and fought the Tainos after they helped them out.2 On his second trip Columbus set up a permanent colony and again his men raped, stole gold ornaments and food that provoked war with the Tainos. The Spanish killed tens of thousands out of population and the ones who did survive the Spanish ended up chopping off their hands if they did not provide their allotment.3 At the end the Spanish wiped out the islands either by killing the people or they left to surrounding countries.