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Christopher Columbus Research Paper

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I have been on this ship for many weeks, and I don’t know when I will get off. The crew talks about their findings from the last voyage, but I all I can think about is seeing land again. I joined the trip because it paid well and I was interested in becoming rich like the people of Columbus’s voyage had. They brought back gold, new plants, and cloths. Pizzaro speaks often of how we are to convert any natives seen to Christianity. Hopefully, we will claim even more territory for Spain. The next day, we see land. By night, we are in the bay of a tropical land. Fruit trees grow on the shores, and off in the distance we see shelters built on the rocky shore. Many people stand around a blazing fire chanting and howling. Pizzaro insists that we

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