Columbus

Columbus Columbus and the Indians Christopher Columbus is easily one of the most famous and most well known men in the world. Although people learn about Columbus in school, they don’t learn enough about him to realize that he wasn’t such a hero. He wasn’t that great, brave, kind man that people picture when they hear his name; he was a slave driver and a murderer. In this paper, I am going to talk about why Columbus killed so many innocent people, and why he acted the way he did towards the people who could have helped him. All Columbus was looking for was power. Wherever he went, and who ever he saw, he would picture them as slaves, and try to imagine how they could make his life better. In Columbus’s journey to the Bahamas he wrote: “They do not bear arms, and do not know them, for I showed them a sword, they took it by the edge and cut themselves out of ignorance. The have no iron. Their spears are made of cane….They would make fine servants….With fifty men, we could subjugate them all and make them do whatever we want.” Columbus wrote this when he first met the Arawak Indians. Later, columbus, indians, gold, told, out, took, people, about, queen, man, make, looking, king, because, arawak, wrote, whatever, very, spain, slaves, prisoners, pinta, over, one, nina, mission, made, learn, know, journey, island, hispaniola, great, didn’t, columbus’s, back