Why Christopher Columbus A Villain?

Register to read the introduction… In an article he says what Columbus had done was worse than Hitler. In the Tainos perspective they saw Columbus as a dangerous, selfish, and powerful man. When Columbus first arrived in the Bahamas he described the population to be gentle and generosity of heart. What possess a man to kill, rape, and take advantage of these poor people? Columbus had wiped out a majority of the Native Taino population and as a result of his discoveries at the new world he paid his dues and was arrested and eventually killed. But on his way back from his second journey after finding slim amounts of gold, he had captured five-hundred natives and shipped them back to Europe. A majority of the five-hundred had died on the route back to Spain. Columbus had killed almost seven-million Tainos. Destroying their culture, lives, and families. Yes he had started the mass time of exploration and discovered the new world. But he destroyed the Native culture. Mass destruction starting at violence, rape, disease, exaction, and finally Genocide. This is why Christopher Columbus is a villain.

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