Compare And Contrast Native Americans And Conquistadors

In Zinns chapter, He questions that all the deaths of the Indians was necessary for human progression and for the progression of the new world. The killing of Indians continued for years upon years and the only thing the Englishmen and Conquistadors got out of the killing was land. The search for the “gold” became a way for Conquistadors to become selfish and kill the people who welcomed them with hospitality. Disease will end many lives and the Indian population will diminish. The Awark Indians were described as “well built with good bodies and handsome features “(Zinn 1). Columbus then goes on to say that, “They would make great slaves” (Zinn 1). Columbus already knew what his intentions were for the Awark Indians. His only goal was gold. He did not care about anything else. He did not care if he killed thousands along the way, and he did not care that he had to lie so that way his expeditions would be funned. Columbus so was desperate to find the gold that he would give the Indians “impossible task” ( Zinn 4). Zinns say the Columbus would make any Indians “ fourteen years and older …show more content…
The women would even go to the extent of killing their infants so that way they did not have to live in those conditions. A young priest named Bartolome de la Casas tells about Indians trying to defend themselves and they would be killed. He also talks about the men and women being exhausted and depressed. De la Casas say, “Thus husbands and wives were only together every eight to ten months and when they did they were so depressed on both sides…. That they ceased to procreate” ( Zinn 7). The men and women were so exhausted that they would even die at work, and women who had infants could not make milk to feed them due to exhaustion and lack of food. The Indians were taken as slaves and sold through encomiendas. By 1650, “ None of the original Awarks or their descendants (were) left on the island” ( Zinn