Colonization Of Columbus

After many centuries, a lot of controversy still surrounds Christopher Columbus. He remains to be a strange figure in history regarded as a famous explorer and a great mariner who made many discoveries in his days. Other people still regard him as a visionary and a national hero while others chose to remember him as a brutal and greedy person who used the rest of the humanity for his own selfish gains. Despite the fact that there have been protests in his being honored through a holiday referred to as the Columbus Day, he still deserves recognition and acknowledgement as a historical figure performed a great role in the making of the modern world.

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.

but also describes the problems such as the Santa Maria sinking. Columbus wrote the Spanish royalty

• had a formal language to write, a type of counting system, an correct calendar, and a agri system that was ahead of the time

Before Cuba became a nation, Cuba was first a Spanish colony. In 1492, Christopher Columbus, an Italian explorer, claimed Cuba as a colony of Spain after he was sent by the Spanish monarchy to find a route to Asia, specifically Southeast Asia. Columbus enlisted the help of the native people in Cuba, known as the Taino, to find consequential resources on the island for Spain. The Tainos’ willingness to aid Columbus caused the native people to become enslaved under Spanish rule. Despite the encouragement from Hatuey, a Taino leader who tried warning fellow Taino the horrors of Spanish subjugation, uprisings to remove the Spanish failed. In 1570’s, the economic success of the farming industry fueled Spain to import Africans to work as slaves.

Chapter one in Columbus, The Indians, and Human Progress by Howard Zinn tells about the adventures of explorer Christopher Columbus and his journey to the Americas. The way Zinn portrays the events of Columbus arriving in the Americas is solely focused on making the Arawak Indians look like the victims; something different than the way any other historian might tell it. He makes it seem that the Spanish conquers are greedy and cruel while the Indians are all generous and innocent and then continues to talk about exactly how cruel the Spaniards were to the indigenous people, like working them to death or killing them for the fun of it. Personally, I don’t completely agree with Zinn’s viewpoints due to the fact that he never mentions anything

This history of Mistreatment can be traced as far back as 1492 to Christopher Columbus. The true importance and history of Christopher Columbus is highly debated and is often misconstrued by the bias of textbooks writers. As students, most of us were taught the rhyme “in 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue”. Columbus was portrayed as one of the first American hero’s in our classrooms without question. Many of us can clearly recall Columbus Day celebrations in which students made arts and craft and sang songs about this hero by the name of Christopher Columbus. There is a much darker side to Columbuses exploration of the Americas that textbooks and teachers tend to leave out or fill with twisted recollection of events with rosy retrospection

Throughout history, key individuals are simply the product of their times, happening upon their destinies through luck or inevitability rather than personal motive or talent. Christopher Columbus did not set out on his voyage, intending to discover a new continent and change the course of the world so dramatically; and if he had not played his role in the colonization of the Americas, someone else would have. Likewise, the cascade of events that led to World War I could be blamed on Archduke Ferdinand, his assassin, or even his driver, but the Great War would have erupted even if the assassination had never taken place at all. Sometimes, though, the power and personality of an individual is capable of diverting the course of history, their influence overpowering the cumulative current of events like a ship 's rudder.

When Europeans explored the world during the “Age of Exploration”, they colonized areas for a number of reasons. One reason was to spread Christianity. The Spaniards believed it was their God given duty to convert people to Christianity. A second reason was to acquire wealth through trade and exploitation of other countries’ peoples and natural resources. Colonizing and acquiring the land in Latin America also led to an increase in geopolitical power over other European countries.

Christopher Columbus. A name known far and wide, a name that has been profoundly applauded with incredible disclosures of new terrains and new people groups, a name that would likely suit a solid pioneer. In any case, it is only that, a name, the man behind the name however is altogether different from what everybody undoubtedly pictures in light of what has been thought to everybody. Be that as it may, depend on it Christopher Columbus was, in actuality, a villan.

I had never heard of Cahokia before, but it sounds like a cool place. What surprised me was how large it was. The article said it was even larger than the Great Pyramid in Egypt. It’s interesting that it is such a huge place, but it doesn’t sound like many people visit it and not even that many people know about it. The Europeans had a lot of misconceptions about North America and the Native Americans who lived there. They thought that the whole continent was empty of civilization, and that the natives were savages that had no society. They thought that places like Cahokia had been built by other nations and the natives had just wiped them out. They were wrong however,

Oftentimes, reading secondary documents can help one understand their primary counterparts. Both the video and the article on the Biography website allow readers to better understand Christopher Columbus’s “Journal of the First Voyage in America”. These secondary sources provide background information for the reader which assists them in understanding Columbus’s true motives in his journal.

In the article “Christopher Columbus stole credit for discovering America” by David Millward. Millward talks about how Columbus stole the credit of the discovered of America from the Pinzon brothers. In addition the brothers Vincente and Martin Pinzon providing ships, after Columbus’s original ship was destroyed by the people of Palos in Andalusia. The Pinzon brothers, on the other hand, were veteran mariners who had little difficulty in recruiting crew to take part in what was potentially a dangerous voyage and Columbus had already the crew for the dangerous voyage. He mention that Columbus may have been a brilliant navigator and politician but he was not a sea captain because Columbus ship sank in December 1492, after hitting reef of the

As Europe emerged from the Middle Ages and stood on the brink of the Protestant Reformation, emperors and leaders in the church gazed across the vast Pacific Ocean with dreams of riches and expansion. While the scope and magnitude of what the New World truly meant to the church was still somewhat unknown and yet to be defined, it cannot be argued that the first steps of Christopher Columbus in the Americas would dramatically change both the church and the indigenous inhabitants who lived there.

brought was death. Bartolomé de Las Casas noted “so that from 1494 to 1508, over three million people had perished from war, slavery, and the mines” ("Effects of European Colonization: Christopher Columbus and Native Americans"). This was primarily due to European domesticated animals such as: pigs, sheep, horses, cows, and goats. To create a great epidemic of diseases America had never witnessed before. Horrible diseases which the ingenious population had no immunity for, smallpox, typhus, influence, diphtheria, and measles. “Modern historians commonly accept that around 90% of all Native Americans died as a result of contact with Europeans” ("Effects of European Colonization: Christopher Columbus and Native Americans").