Columbus’ Men held part of the responsibility for threatening and killing the Tainos. They were the people who were commanded by Christopher Columbus to “help” conquer the Tainos. In document 2, it says “They laid bets as to who, with one stroke of the sword, could split a man in two or could cut off his head or spill our his entrails(internal organs) with a single stroke of the pike.” The men viewed the Tainos as something that they could amuse themselves with by killing them. In document 2, it says “They took infants from their mothers’ breasts, snatching them by the legs and pitching them head first against the crags(rocks) or snatched them by the arms.” The men just took babies and abused them harshly and threw them into the waters and
