Christopher_Columbus

Christopher Columbus Christopher Columbus’s 1492 voyage across the Atlantic impacted the world forever. His endeavor was incredible; the first man to reach what he thought was Asia from the east. A feat that seemed impossible, but he achieved it with great success for himself and his country of Spain. But the people of the Americas that he so inadvertently exposed to the European’s were left in ruins. Christopher Columbus was a plague brought upon innocent people that changed their lives forever. Christopher Columbus falls short of a heroic man in terms of his maltreatment to the Indians, and achieves the state of a treasure seeker who had a great deal of luck. The people of the “new world” brought no hostility towards Columbus and his men. They greeted Columbus and his men with open arms. The Indian peoples welcomed Europeans warmly, provided them with food, and taught them important new survival skills. In some cases, they perceived them as being divine, or at least spiritually powerful. Native peoples were quickly disillusioned by treachery or mistreatment at European hands. Columbus, knowing of their cynicism, used this to his advantage. Columbus wrote in his log “They...brought us parrots and balls of cotton and spears and columbus, new, men, gold, brought, world, people, natives, found, christopher, voyage, took, spices, spain, slavery, skills, native, great, diseases, columbus’s, animals, whatever, treasure, spread, spaniards, slaves, ships, seeker, return, quantity, promised, peoples, over, might, man, maltreatment, make, lands, land, island, indians, indian, impossible, himself, hero, hands, goods, go, forever, european’s