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Columbus and the Indians

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What Columbus ships looked like

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Columbus had set out in search of finding an easier way to trade with China, India, and Asia, but instead he found a new world with people that Columbus named indians, because he thought he was in India. Christopher Columbus had the chance of a lifetime. He had the chance to do something that no man was willing to do, because they thought it impossible to survive across the ocean to reach the other side of the continent.Columbus made many mistakes on this voyage, that started with his violent nature to the people who lived there.

According to ThoughtCo. ”The First New World Voyage of Christopher Columbus (1492)”, it is somewhat surprising that what is today considered one of the most important voyages in history was something of a failure at the time. Columbus had promised to find a new, quicker route to the lucrative Chinese trade markets and he failed miserably. Instead of holds full of Chinese silks and spices, he returned with some trinkets and a few bedraggled natives from Hispaniola. Some 10 more had perished on the voyage. Also, he had lost the largest of the three ships entrusted to him. Columbus actually considered the natives his greatest find. He thought that a new slave trade could make his discoveries lucrative. Columbus was hugely disappointed a few years later when Queen Isabella, after careful thought, decided not to open the New World to slave trading. Columbus never believed that he had found something new. He maintained, to his dying day, that the lands he discovered were indeed part of the known Far East. In spite of the failure of the first expedition to find spices or gold, a much larger second expedition was approved, perhaps in part due to Columbus’ skills as a salesman.

Christopher columbus’s decision in misjudging the natives on his first voyage to sail the seas was a mistake that could have been approached in a different manner. He approached the foreign people with hostility and aggression towards them, wanting to take their things and had plans to enslave them for the homeland. When first approached the natives, Columbus instead of negatively he could have introduced himself peacefully and sought out a friendly alliance with them. France and the Natives could have had some well balanced ground with equal opportunities on both sides. Sadly though history says otherwise. Instead of a peaceful way Columbus bounced around the Caribbean just slaughtering and stealing natives whom resided there.

According to Enotes “How did Christopher columbus change history?” Columbus’s discovery allowed the period of colonization to begin. This had a number of important effects. From our perspective as Americans, the eventual creation of the US is probably the most important of these effects. By finding the new world, Columbus started its European colonization. This eventually ended up allowing to move much of the world towards democracy. It also led to the development of what is now the world's only superpower. In other words even though Columbus acted very irrationally with the indians, if it was not for Columbus's stubbornness in france promising that he could sail straight across the ocean and reach Asia and the the other side of the continent who knows how long it would have taken for the “new world” to be discovered. Thanks to Columbus’s mistake the new world was discovered and the people who live here today live here in the time that they do. If history was any different the world known today would be different. From us not being advanced as we are to us not even being here.

With the discoverie of Christopher columbus the world would not be the same to day in any shape or way. The new world owes a lot to columbus’s expedition. Pretty much if columbus was actually smart for that time he would have never tried to sail the ocean thinking he could reach the side of the continent with the amount of food he had brought. Its funny that someone's failure can be a world's success.

Works Cited

A Spotlight on a Primary Source by Christopher Columbus. “The Gilder Lehrman Institute of AmMinster, Christopher. “What Christopher Columbus Discovered on His First New World Voyage.” ThoughtCo, www.thoughtco.com/first-new-world-voyage-christopher-columbus-2136437.

American History.” Columbus Reports on His First Voyage, 1493 | Gilder Lehrman Institute, www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/exploration/resources/columbus-reports-his-first-voyage-1493.

“How Did Christopher Columbus' Discovery Change History?” Enotes.com, Enotes.com, www.enotes.com/homework-help/how-did-christopher-columbus-discovery-change-397475.

Minster, Christopher. “What Christopher Columbus Discovered on His First New World Voyage.” ThoughtCo, www.thoughtco.com/first-new-world-voyage-christopher-columbus-2136437.

Nabokov, Peter. “Indians, Slaves, and Mass Murder: The Hidden History.” The New York Review of Books, www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/11/24/indians-slaves-and-mass-murder-the-hidden-history/.

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