When Columbus set foot in the New World, it led to an exemplary and extreme encounter between the natives and the Spaniards. And soon Columbus decided to take ‘specimens’ of natives back with him to Spain, as proof of his finding the Indies and in order to teach them to become civilised. The first seeds of colonisation can be sensed in Colón’s move to built a fort on the Island of Hispaniola and leave 44 men to hold the land for Spanish crown. Columbus made 3 trips to the New world. On his second trip in 1493, he returned to the Island of Hispaniola, this time with a larger number of ships and 1500 men to establish a Spanish colony. But what is remarkable about this trip was that young Spanish nobles and adventurers came to this new colony
