Should We Celebrate Columbus Day? Here’s what i think ..No, I disagree that we shouldn’t celebrate Columbus Day..Why?
Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492 and discovered America, there is more to the story of the explorer we celebrate with a federal holiday on the secind Monday of every October.As historians have continued to learn and write more about the the real life of Christopher Columbus, controversy has arisen over the vadlidity of honoring the explorer as a hero.Like many Euorpeans explorers ,Columbus had encountered many indigenous people throughout his voyages.There are three main sources of controversey involving Columbus’s interactions with the indigeous people he labeled “Indians” the use of violence and slavery, the forced conversion of native peoples to Christianity.Historians have uncovered extensive evidence of the damage wreaked by Columbus and his teams, …show more content…
Those who were left behind were forced to search for gold in mines and on plantations. 60 years after Columbus landed, only few hundred of what may have been 250,000 Tanio were left on their island.
In response to native unrest and revolt.Columbus ordered the brutal crackdown in which many natives were killed in attempt to deter further rebellion columbus ordered their dismembered bodies to be paraded through the streets.Columbus imposed iron discipline on what is now the Caribbean country of Dominican Republic, according to documents discovered by Spanish historians in 2005.Though the effects were widespread and cannot all be dismissed as negative, critics of Columbus have asserted that the worst aspects of his exchange added up to biological
Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492 and discovered America, there is more to the story of the explorer we celebrate with a federal holiday on the secind Monday of every October.As historians have continued to learn and write more about the the real life of Christopher Columbus, controversy has arisen over the vadlidity of honoring the explorer as a hero.Like many Euorpeans explorers ,Columbus had encountered many indigenous people throughout his voyages.There are three main sources of controversey involving Columbus’s interactions with the indigeous people he labeled “Indians” the use of violence and slavery, the forced conversion of native peoples to Christianity.Historians have uncovered extensive evidence of the damage wreaked by Columbus and his teams, …show more content…
Those who were left behind were forced to search for gold in mines and on plantations. 60 years after Columbus landed, only few hundred of what may have been 250,000 Tanio were left on their island.
In response to native unrest and revolt.Columbus ordered the brutal crackdown in which many natives were killed in attempt to deter further rebellion columbus ordered their dismembered bodies to be paraded through the streets.Columbus imposed iron discipline on what is now the Caribbean country of Dominican Republic, according to documents discovered by Spanish historians in 2005.Though the effects were widespread and cannot all be dismissed as negative, critics of Columbus have asserted that the worst aspects of his exchange added up to biological