Christopher Columbus will always be known in our history to be the one who “found” America and filled up with people or other living things it, therefore, having his own holiday but I believe that he was simply bad and if I had to choose I would say a good guy who did terrible things. He had somewhat of good intentions for his people. Columbus in any event will always be known for creating a bridge for the new/old world. His trips enabled the exchange of plants, animals, cultures, ideas (and, yes, disease) between the different parts of the world. Once the people of Europe could reach nearly all parts of the globe, a new modern age would begin, transforming the world forever. Columbus wanted to find riches and conquer new lands for his people but it did not hurt that he probably got some of it for himself.
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He made them “do hard labor in the mines, labors that caused many of them to die. And it is a great sorrow and heartbreak to see this coastal land which was so flourishing, now a depopulated desert (40).” Columbus and his men had the local people in the West Indies treated inhumanly to where they were subject to extreme brutality and violence. Even on his first days of landing he looked at the people as servants and took some of them. He tried to transport people from Hispaniola to Spain to be sold. Many of these people died in route. Those left behind were forced to search for gold in mines and on plantations. If they did not provide enough gold ; they would often lose their hands meaning they would lose their hands. Within 60 years after Columbus landed, only a few hundred of what may have been 250,000 Taino were left on their
He made them “do hard labor in the mines, labors that caused many of them to die. And it is a great sorrow and heartbreak to see this coastal land which was so flourishing, now a depopulated desert (40).” Columbus and his men had the local people in the West Indies treated inhumanly to where they were subject to extreme brutality and violence. Even on his first days of landing he looked at the people as servants and took some of them. He tried to transport people from Hispaniola to Spain to be sold. Many of these people died in route. Those left behind were forced to search for gold in mines and on plantations. If they did not provide enough gold ; they would often lose their hands meaning they would lose their hands. Within 60 years after Columbus landed, only a few hundred of what may have been 250,000 Taino were left on their