Summary: When World's Collide

When World’s Collide In 1492, Christopher Columbus embarked on his journey to what he thought was India. Little did he know, he would first end up in The Caribbean, and later discover what is now known as the Americas. England, Spain, and France would soon try and conquer the New World and the Native American’s in it. Each of these countries interactions with the Native’s were different, but would affect their culture and way of living in some way.
The Spaniards expedition was one of the first interactions with the Natives that anyone from Europe had ever had. After being turned down multiple times, Columbus had finally gotten the country of Spain to finance his expedition to the West Indies. On Columbus’s first voyage, which took over two months, he had landed on an island in the Bahamas which he called San
Columbus meets the indigenous people, known as the Tainos. He notices that they weren’t wearing much clothing, but what he finds interesting, was the items made out of gold that the Natives were wearing. Columbus wants the gold, and when he embarks on his journey back to Spain, he brings a couple of Tainos with him. When Columbus makes it back to Spain, he shows off the Tainos to the King and Queen and asks for permission to enslave them. Columbus then commenced on his second journey to the New World, which he intended to conquer the Tainos people, therefore seizing their gold. He brought 12,000 Spaniards on 17 ships to assist him on his journey to establish the first Spanish colony in the Americas. When Columbus returned to Santo Domingo on his third voyage to the Americas, he had come back to a horrific scene. The Tainos consequently had slaughtered the Spaniards while Columbus was away because of the conditions that they were being treated. If the Natives couldn’t pay the Spaniards in gold, they were taken and