"In fourteen hundred ninety two Columbus sailed the ocean blue." Christopher Columbus has become well known as the man who discovered America. Though the fact that he discovered the Americas has been debunked and proven false, he had made a tremendous impact on how our land came to be. The age of his exploration was made possible only by the king and queen of Spain. And when Columbus got his shot he brought colonization, disease, death, and a multitude of other factors that affected how the lives of everyone would be changed. Columbus created a chain of effects that eventually led him to become a common household name, and a national holiday.
Columbus was always intrigued by the ocean since he was young. He started off making small trecks around …show more content…
When columbus landed in hispaniola, he began to take people hostage. He used the indigenous people for everything and anything he wanted. The people of Hispaniola were mostly kidnapped for use as translators or sex slaves. If any of the the natives resisted their captors they were often times attacked by dogs, mutilated, or just killed by hangings. Columbus also created a slave trade of some 500 Indians and sent them back to spain, but almost all of them died as they reached the end leg of their journey. After Columbus’ failed attempt to trade slaves, he forced every Taino indian to “deliver a regular quota” of gold, and if they failed to find enough gold to fill the quota, Columbus had “their hands chopped off” (Bigelow). Columbus destroyed homes and took everything he could possibly gather from the lands including the lives of hundreds, if not thousands of the indigenous people out of greed and selfishness. Columbus may have created a path for colonization in a new land, bus the effects he had when he set foot on the new sand created devastating effects of the natives who were living there long before his
Columbus was always intrigued by the ocean since he was young. He started off making small trecks around …show more content…
When columbus landed in hispaniola, he began to take people hostage. He used the indigenous people for everything and anything he wanted. The people of Hispaniola were mostly kidnapped for use as translators or sex slaves. If any of the the natives resisted their captors they were often times attacked by dogs, mutilated, or just killed by hangings. Columbus also created a slave trade of some 500 Indians and sent them back to spain, but almost all of them died as they reached the end leg of their journey. After Columbus’ failed attempt to trade slaves, he forced every Taino indian to “deliver a regular quota” of gold, and if they failed to find enough gold to fill the quota, Columbus had “their hands chopped off” (Bigelow). Columbus destroyed homes and took everything he could possibly gather from the lands including the lives of hundreds, if not thousands of the indigenous people out of greed and selfishness. Columbus may have created a path for colonization in a new land, bus the effects he had when he set foot on the new sand created devastating effects of the natives who were living there long before his