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Why Are Native Americans Worth The Cost Of Colonization
In 1492 Columbus had gone looking for India because of the spices and riches. He saw land but that was not India. That was a new world. That was America. Columbus went to that land and saw new people which were Native Americans. He saw new types of food, acres of land and a whole bunch of trees everywhere. This land was new and most likely had a lot of resources and he had decided to colonize in the new world. The colonization in the new world was a great deal and was worth the costs.
Ever since Columbus had colonized in the new world there was an enormous amount of new resources of Columbus and the queen of Spain to use. There were foods that Columbus had stated in his letter to the Queen of Spain that he has never seen before. Columbus and his men had seen new fruits and they sent those foods back to Britain. The people who lived there had also helped Columbus and his men. They had provided him most of the food and because of that help people would want to colonize the world. The natives do whatever someone wants them to do. According to the letter Columbus had stated that they would become great help and give us which are the English, what we greatly need. Back then when
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That because of the colonization there has been many people hurt and enslaved. Later over the years Native Americans were working for us and doing what the English had asked, but they were already doing that in the first place. When Columbus had reached the new world the Native Americans had been doing what Columbus had needed and provided with many things. They did not say no and did what he had asked. So when the Friar had said that we had enslaved them they were already behaving like they were in the first place. Also the colonization in the new world had helped the old world tremendously. Because of all the resources and new food from the new world, Columbus had transferred all of that to the old world, or

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