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The first article accurately describe the terrible horrors that Columbus spreads throughout the land, such as mass homicide, rape, enslavement and plenty more treacherous things that are illegal all over the world. The first article explains how Columbus came to America and the native Americans flocked him with beautiful and mysterious (to him and the Europeans) gifts and treated them like gods yet Columbus writes that the "Indians" are foolish and ignorant. He sees them like tools he says they are well fit and have handsome features so what does he do he enslaves them and cover them with deadly smallpox. Yet through horrid time in history people like Conell find a way to sugarcoat it and only say the "nice" subjects like finding America and spreading technology while people like Howard Zinn spread the ill coated truth of the birth of this great independent country's …show more content…
Mr zinn spreads the truth of how Columbus truly sailed the ocean blue in 1492 to kill 250 thousand natives with swords, guns, disease, and mental thoughts the second article shows/tells nothing about how Columbus killed at least 250 thousand natives. but at least the second article admits Columbus was not the first one and that his calculation were Asia was 2.4 thousand miles away while in reality Asia is more than ten so thousand miles away so he was off by 7.6 thousand mile off. another thing not mentioned was that Columbus promised a reward for whoever spotted land which was Rodrigo DE Triana, but did not receive. Columbus also promised after a threat of mutiny that they would return home if they saw no land but Columbus had no intention of turning back. so that is my paragraph on Christopher
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