As we grow, our perceptions of the past are subject to change. We gain new insight and challenge the ideas that people had twenty years ago, and those ideas are either disproved or modified to fit with what we know now. It is said that history is written from the side of the winners, and in the case of Christopher Columbus, this statement holds true until we begin to realize what Columbus did. It was then when people looked on the side of the “losers” of history.
When Columbus and the Natives first encountered each other there was a complete clash of cultures. In his journals, Columbus describes them as very friendly, and generous in what they shared in juxtaposition to the Europeans who were driven by a desire for wealth and thought it was
When Columbus and the Natives first encountered each other there was a complete clash of cultures. In his journals, Columbus describes them as very friendly, and generous in what they shared in juxtaposition to the Europeans who were driven by a desire for wealth and thought it was