Columbus Cortes And Human Progress Summary

This week’s readings had me fascinated because it revealed the true past that happened when Columbus, Cortes and Pizarro’s colonized their part of the New World and how it should be time to rewrite history. In Matthew Restall’s chapter 1, A Handful of Adventurers, he explains that these three men are portrayed as larger than life as opposed to greedy humans. In Howard Zinn’s chapter 1, Columbus, The Indians, And Human Progress, which focus on Columbus also states that by portraying him as a hero and a great explorer, his horrible actions are usually ignored and dismissed. I think these two readings tie together because they both agree that these men were branded as heroes of their time in media although their actions aren’t written in the history