How Did Christopher Columbus Bad
Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492. He sailed in three ships to where he thought at the time was India. He ended up landing in the Caribbean, in what is now Haiti. While landing upon the New World, Columbus and his men found that there was a whole civilization among them. On one of the islands that he found there were what Columbus stated as “great and beautiful mountains, vast fields, groves, fertile plants, very suitable for planting and cultivating, and for building the houses.” (Letter from Christopher Columbus to King and Queen of Spain)
Christopher Columbus, like what all Europeans have been doing for many centuries, had taken over the land. He ordered that the islands be renamed, giving them names …show more content…
Tobacco, sugar, and animals moved west, to Europe. The tomato, the potato, cocoa, corn, and horses moved east to the Caribbean. Yet with all the good crops and agriculture moving in both directions, smallpox spread like a wildfire that had wiped out millions of the Natives. Syphilis appeared first in Europe, then moved back to the Americas. Columbus and many of the other European explorers took many of the Natives as slaves. He took their gold and natural resources right out from under them.
Columbus had found out many things during his voyages to the islands, many interesting things that he was not used to back home in Europe. In the letter he had wrote to the King and Queen of Spain Columbus shared his observations that; men are content with one wife, and one wife only, yet princes and kings are permitted to have 20. Columbus discovered that the women work more than the men had on the islands.
Columbus brought both good and bad things to the Americas. Though he had killed millions of the Natives that were there before he had made his way to America, he brought the European culture to the remaining Natives. Many people are not Columbus’ biggest fan, many people view him as a “grasping fortune hunter, a mediocre sailor, and an incompetent governor of Spain’s New World.” (Good Guy or Dirty Word: ‘The Conquest of
Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492. He sailed in three ships to where he thought at the time was India. He ended up landing in the Caribbean, in what is now Haiti. While landing upon the New World, Columbus and his men found that there was a whole civilization among them. On one of the islands that he found there were what Columbus stated as “great and beautiful mountains, vast fields, groves, fertile plants, very suitable for planting and cultivating, and for building the houses.” (Letter from Christopher Columbus to King and Queen of Spain)
Christopher Columbus, like what all Europeans have been doing for many centuries, had taken over the land. He ordered that the islands be renamed, giving them names …show more content…
Tobacco, sugar, and animals moved west, to Europe. The tomato, the potato, cocoa, corn, and horses moved east to the Caribbean. Yet with all the good crops and agriculture moving in both directions, smallpox spread like a wildfire that had wiped out millions of the Natives. Syphilis appeared first in Europe, then moved back to the Americas. Columbus and many of the other European explorers took many of the Natives as slaves. He took their gold and natural resources right out from under them.
Columbus had found out many things during his voyages to the islands, many interesting things that he was not used to back home in Europe. In the letter he had wrote to the King and Queen of Spain Columbus shared his observations that; men are content with one wife, and one wife only, yet princes and kings are permitted to have 20. Columbus discovered that the women work more than the men had on the islands.
Columbus brought both good and bad things to the Americas. Though he had killed millions of the Natives that were there before he had made his way to America, he brought the European culture to the remaining Natives. Many people are not Columbus’ biggest fan, many people view him as a “grasping fortune hunter, a mediocre sailor, and an incompetent governor of Spain’s New World.” (Good Guy or Dirty Word: ‘The Conquest of