Was Columbus a Hero or Villain?
By Brendan Mullen
Multiple people argue that Christopher Columbus was a “Hero”, since he discovered the Americas and was the start of the Columbian Exchange. The Columbian Exchange was a huge trade involving plants, animals, culture, technology and ideas between the Americas and the Old world. The exchange was all due to Columbus landing in the new world, and changed a lot for how the world is today. Without Columbus, people in the old world most likely would not have found the new world as fast as they did, and when they met, things could have gone a lot different than they are now. Without the Columbian exchange, and him finding the Americas, our world and technology might have been set back a few eras as …show more content…
He was a huge villain in the fact that he enslaved people that he just met, only because they “...do not carry arms, or know them… ”. Columbus would force them into slavery, and if the Natives would ever do something “wrong”, he would punish them, and sometimes even kill them. Due to him, the Taino group would gain new infectious diseases, and with the horrible treatment from Europeans the Tainos would eventually all die off. Columbus was the root cause of multiple people dying, and slavery becoming a huge thing in the new world. Columbus enslaving the natives, and getting to Americas was the start of a massive slave trade, as without him, the slave trade wouldn’t be at the level that it turned into. At his time, slavery wasn’t a completely horrible thing to do, yet that doesn’t mean he wasn’t bad. Even if your society thinks something might be fine, what he did was torture other human beings and kill them if they didn’t bring him enough wealth. Christopher Columbus was one of the main reasons that Natives are called Indians, and were treated the way they were. I drew chains to show how the natives were enslaved and sometimes even beaten by the Europeans. Columbus may have been a “hero” to some, but not to the first
By Brendan Mullen
Multiple people argue that Christopher Columbus was a “Hero”, since he discovered the Americas and was the start of the Columbian Exchange. The Columbian Exchange was a huge trade involving plants, animals, culture, technology and ideas between the Americas and the Old world. The exchange was all due to Columbus landing in the new world, and changed a lot for how the world is today. Without Columbus, people in the old world most likely would not have found the new world as fast as they did, and when they met, things could have gone a lot different than they are now. Without the Columbian exchange, and him finding the Americas, our world and technology might have been set back a few eras as …show more content…
He was a huge villain in the fact that he enslaved people that he just met, only because they “...do not carry arms, or know them… ”. Columbus would force them into slavery, and if the Natives would ever do something “wrong”, he would punish them, and sometimes even kill them. Due to him, the Taino group would gain new infectious diseases, and with the horrible treatment from Europeans the Tainos would eventually all die off. Columbus was the root cause of multiple people dying, and slavery becoming a huge thing in the new world. Columbus enslaving the natives, and getting to Americas was the start of a massive slave trade, as without him, the slave trade wouldn’t be at the level that it turned into. At his time, slavery wasn’t a completely horrible thing to do, yet that doesn’t mean he wasn’t bad. Even if your society thinks something might be fine, what he did was torture other human beings and kill them if they didn’t bring him enough wealth. Christopher Columbus was one of the main reasons that Natives are called Indians, and were treated the way they were. I drew chains to show how the natives were enslaved and sometimes even beaten by the Europeans. Columbus may have been a “hero” to some, but not to the first