Christopher Columbus Conquering

There is no one face of conquering. Like a coin, there are two sides, and what you see depends on how you flip it. There are positives and negatives in any conquering event, and to truly understand how the world works you need to explore and understand both. There are many different conquering events to explore and understand, but this paper will look into only two of the ‘big ones’ that are recognized in the world today.
One commonly recognized and celebrated example of conquering is that of Christopher Columbus in 1492. From as early as birth it seems children hear of the courage and accomplishments of Columbus, even to the point that we have a federal holiday dedicated to him on the second Monday of October. He is credited with the discovery of the New World and creating this continent as we know it today. But switch the perspective to that of the native people in the Americas back then and you get a much darker picture. Columbus to them was a cruel and oppressive man, who enslaved, raped, and murdered thousands of their people. He even sold the young native girls into sexual slavery, casually referenced in his journal as if it were nothing. He said: “A hundred castellanoes are as easily obtained for a woman as for a farm, and it is very general and there are plenty of dealers who go about looking for girls; those from nine to ten are now in demand.” Expert historians generally agree that before Columbus’s arrival,
If you choose to see both sides you accept both realities whilst simultaneously deciding for yourself what the true face of that conquering event really is. The atrocities of conquering are disgusting, horrible, depressing, and painful to think about, but they are the realities of what happened. The positive creations of conquering bring hope and light to the world. So to truly understand conquering, we must see all the sides of