Christopher Columbus was born in 1451 he was “the son of a weaver from the Italian port of Genoa” (Boyer, 36). Columbus became obsessed with finding a Western route to the Indies-India and Southwest Asia. With such a long journey ahead he needed to find somebody who could fund his journey. He seeked patronage from King John II but he rejected his plan. So he left Portugal to go to Spain to seek support from Isabella and Ferdinand. He was once again rejected. So he made his way back to Portugal so he could once again ask John II but unfortunately, Dias discovered a passage to the Indies. So Columbus’s proposal was unnecessary. In a last ditch effort, Columbus travels back to Spain to ask Isabella for support. But the royal commission rejected
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With the exploration of the New World and stumbling upon the Americas, his discoveries enlarged the globe and started a brand new age of exploration. Columbus was not the cold-hearted figure that his critics created him out to be, his supporters claimed. He, in fact, had great admiration for the Arawak, remarking on their generosity and high intelligence and calling them “the handsomest men and most beautiful woman” and “the best people in the world, and the gentlest.” Writing in his journal on his first encounter with the Arawak, Columbus expressed hope “that we might form a great friendship, for I knew that they were a people who could be more easily freed and converted to our holy faith by love than by force”. He added: “[I] gave to some of them red caps, and glass beads to put around their necks, and many other little things of value, which gave them great pleasure, and made them so much our friends that it was a marvel to see” (Bodenner, …show more content…
Wars were waged against Amerindians, Sepulveda insisted, “in order to uproot crimes that offended nature,” such as idolatry, sodomy, and cannibalism. Since these Indians tyrannized and killed each other, he argued, the Spanish had a right to intervene-violently if necessary. Such wars were just, Sepulveda said, because they would “save many innocents, who [the Indians] immolate every year, from great injustices.” (Bodenner, NP). Christopher Columbus actions for human progress was defiantly necessary. He was a very godly man who put faith into everything. He even tried to see the good in the Amerindians but they were too ungodly so he took what authority he had and did what he had to do to them. His vision and courage changed the history of the
With the exploration of the New World and stumbling upon the Americas, his discoveries enlarged the globe and started a brand new age of exploration. Columbus was not the cold-hearted figure that his critics created him out to be, his supporters claimed. He, in fact, had great admiration for the Arawak, remarking on their generosity and high intelligence and calling them “the handsomest men and most beautiful woman” and “the best people in the world, and the gentlest.” Writing in his journal on his first encounter with the Arawak, Columbus expressed hope “that we might form a great friendship, for I knew that they were a people who could be more easily freed and converted to our holy faith by love than by force”. He added: “[I] gave to some of them red caps, and glass beads to put around their necks, and many other little things of value, which gave them great pleasure, and made them so much our friends that it was a marvel to see” (Bodenner, …show more content…
Wars were waged against Amerindians, Sepulveda insisted, “in order to uproot crimes that offended nature,” such as idolatry, sodomy, and cannibalism. Since these Indians tyrannized and killed each other, he argued, the Spanish had a right to intervene-violently if necessary. Such wars were just, Sepulveda said, because they would “save many innocents, who [the Indians] immolate every year, from great injustices.” (Bodenner, NP). Christopher Columbus actions for human progress was defiantly necessary. He was a very godly man who put faith into everything. He even tried to see the good in the Amerindians but they were too ungodly so he took what authority he had and did what he had to do to them. His vision and courage changed the history of the