Consequences Of Christopher Columbus

Brooke, you make a good point about that Columbus was a genius by venturing on his journey, and who dared to do the impossible for his century. However, he committed acts of violence and brutality with Native Americans, he became a murderer. The Native Americans especially the Arawak Indians were very good, warm, and friendly people who did everything that Columbus wanted. Unfortunately, for them they ran out of gold, and there had started their problems. All For the ambition of a man who is called Cristobal

When Christopher Columbus sailed across the Atlantic Ocean in 1492, he ended up in the islands of the Caribbean, which is not America. Furthermore, there were already humans there, so he wasn't the first to

First of all, Columbus used violence. He lacked respect for the indigenous people he encountered. He also forced the so called “Indians,” to be Christians. The third thing Christopher Columbus did, was spread diseases from one place, to another, from his different interactions.

Columbus may not have been committing the wrongdoings himself, but it was his example they followed, and his expeditions that started the flood of injustice. “The cruel policy initiated by Columbus and pursued by his successors resulted in complete genocide” explains Bartolome de las Casas. Columbus started a wave of abuse that rippled throughout the Americas by means of the Spaniards that followed in his footsteps. The ceaseless suffering the Native Americans went through lead to mass deaths on top of the cold-blooded murders. Las Casas illustrated the extent of the issue in saying the Spaniards “thought nothing of knifing Indians by the tens and twenties and of cutting slices off them to test the sharpness of their blades.” This type of pointless torment is unjustifiable by any standards and was entirely unnecessary for the colonization of the land. It is hard to call someone a hero if they are responsible for such inhumane acts. Being responsible for such inhumane acts makes it hard to call Christopher Columbus a hero. Columbus’s successors brought his personal actions to a grand scale that ultimately outweigh his

Columbus Day should be a day of remembrance for the Native American people, instead of a day of celebration for the historical beginning of America. The Europeans came to America and claimed that they discovered the land. But the truth was that there were Native American people living in America way before the Europeans arrived. The Europeans oppressed the Native Americans.

Even though Columbus was not the first person to step foot in the America’s, he was the first person, from the Eastern Hemisphere, to discover it. For example, when we discover a new species on an island, we may not have known that it existed, but the other living creatures there knew that it did. While Rebecca Dobbs in Document B is right that the Americas were not empty by any stretch of imagination and people lived there and knew about this part of the world, others did not know about it. However, in a letter to Queen Isabelle, Columbus states that they have landed on an island and the people there

According to “Christopher Columbus and Caribbean Population Decline”, the Indian tribe quickly declined because it was already weakened by diseases and the mass murder was the principle cause of the genocide of the Tainos. (Tinker and Freeland 38). Christopher Columbus sped up disappearance of the Taino people by killing and bringing disease into the islands. He used cruel methods such as torture and rape to get what he wanted out of them and as a result of the first voyage to the Americans, was that “Seven and a half million human beings were subjected to murder, torture, oppression, slavery, and cultural dislocation, all of which exacerbated the continual onslaught of the diseases brought with the European invaders (Tinker and Freeland 36). Christopher Columbus was the initiator of Native American genocide. Columbus slaughtered Native people if they did not comply and banned Natives to access basic needs. Christopher Columbus was responsible for the continuing of violence and slavery that later prohibited food, water, medicine and the practice cultural rituals to the Taino natives (Tinker and Freeland 37). Columbus and his people took away many resources that helped Taino Natives

Columbus Day is a day on the second Monday of October that recognizes the exploration of America. Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer who worked in the Spanish government who came to the island of Hispaniola in pursuit of finding a shorter route to India. This controversial holiday sparks many argument about why we shouldn’t have the holiday and others defending the holiday. The good does not make for a good argument against all the bad that the day represents, including: taking a land that was not his, the brutal genocide of Natives, and the enslavement of Natives for illogical reasons.

The second Monday in October is celebrated across America as Columbus Day. It is a celebration of the man who discovered America. In school, children are taught that Christopher Columbus was a national hero. In actuality, the man was a murderer. It is true that he found a land that was unknown to the "civilized" world, yet in this discovery, he erased the natives inhabiting the land. With slavery, warfare, and inhumane acts, Christopher Columbus and the men who accompanied him completely destroyed a people, a culture, and a land. These are not actions that should be heralded as heroic.

     In the essay written by Jeffrey Hart entitled, “Discovering Columbus”, he argues strongly that, in fact, Columbus did discover America. He starts off by describing Columbus as “a genuine titan, a hero of history and of the human spirit.” He goes on to say

Christopher Columbus did not do a single good action in any of his four voyages in the late 1400's. Christopher Columbus was not the founder of the Americas we live in today because he did not discover it, even if he did there were already the natives who inhabited the land. It was just luck that he discovered the Americas, because he wasn’t even coming here, he got here because his ships went the wrong way and “Oh Surprise!” “We got something here to bring to Spain”

The arrival of Columbus in 1492 has been viewed with mixed feelings with others believing the day should be viewed as an occasion for mourning. Some activists advocate for the day to be replaced with a day for ethnic diversity. The belief that he discovered America is not to say that he was the first to set his eyes on America, it meant that he opened up America to new opportunities. This was by bringing America to the attention of the New World by bringing the civilization of Western Europe to its residents. It was the discoveries of Columbus that led to an interaction of ideas and people and different cultures that made America what it is today.

Columbus never even walked on what we now call the United States of America. Where ever he did land, he was motivated only by his own greed. Columbus came for the gold, spices, and slaves. In his diary, he mentioned gold 75 times just in the first two weeks, alone (Katz 13). Indians who weren’t able to find gold, were punished by having their hands cut off. Most slaves died en route to Spain. Many Indian females were taken as sex slaves, some as young as nine and ten years old. Columbus forced cooperation from the Indians by disfiguring them and using them as examples. Even worse, he used hunting dogs to tear the Indians apart. Many natives committed suicide, and murdered their own children to save them from such a horrible life. Those who survived the voyage were worked to death. Still, another huge portion of these Indians died from disease brought over by Columbus and his

Throughout history, Christopher Columbus was seen in quite contrary ways. Some would view him as a valiant hero who discovered the New World and vanquished the primitive ways of the savage and barbaric native people. Others would see Columbus in a much different light, describing him as an interloper who spread disease to and enslaved an entire native people. These two statements above describe two vastly different visions of Christopher Columbus. In fact, the hard evidence would support that a bit of both of the above visions are indeed factual. Christopher Columbus was a man with several wonderful achievements, however some of these achievements had several negative repercussions. Columbus's discovery of the New World led to a more diverse society, a new social system, and the exploitation and eventual extermination of the Native peoples.

Christopher Columbus is perhaps the most well known explorer of all time, for his discovery of The Americas, which he referred to as “the Indies.” This discovery was not deliberate, however, as his intention was to find a more efficient way of travelling to Asia, to obtain spices, by sailing west. This goal was obstructed however, due to the entire continent of what is now known as North America being in the way. Columbus was not aware of this mistake though, and believed that he was, in fact, in the continent of Asia. This place was not the Indies, and the people who were there were not Indians, the world later discovered, however this did not correct the false idea put in place. Despite these people being Native Americans who were living in their homeland, for hundreds succeeding this discovery, even to this day, people had and are incorrectly claiming that they are “Indians, which is false, ignorant,