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Omission
“Columbus made four trips to the Caribbean, finding more islands, as well as the continent of South America."
History Alive didn't mention what Columbus did to the Arawaks.

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History Live omitted that he enslaved the native american tribes and many died.

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An example of History Alive omitting something from the text is when they didn’t talk about Columbus being greedy and enslaving the Arawaks

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Zinn omitted the fact that, Columbus also had goals of finding the mainland and spreading the Christian religion.

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Howard Zinn downplaying/omission. He only mentioned what a monster Columbus was and nothing he did that was positive. Not even that he ultimately discovered America.

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Downplay- Zinn downplays about the achievements

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He was too vague when he was saying that half of the Arawaks died from suicide or murder but left out completely that they many died of smallpox

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History Alive didn't mention that hundreds of Natives were killed during Columbus's expedition.

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Zinn Omitts
-Columbus had a talent for sailing and navigation.

-It took Columbus 7 years for him to convince the monarchs for him to go.

-The only tools he had to rely on were his compass and hourglass.

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Downplay in Howard Zinn: He did not mention any good things that Columbus has done and didn't make it sound as important for example when he didn't mention a big part about Columbus discovering the world was round I think that he did this because he was focused on being against him.

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Omission Howard Zinn didn't show any of the good things that Columbus did for spain, just the bad things. Zinn went more into detail about enslaving all of the Arawaks and kidnapping them for information but History Alive didn't go into much detail about it

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Zinn downplays Columbus's achievements about how he found land

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Downplay -Zinn went into great detail about many things that were bad about Columbus, but downplayed many important facts about  how Columbus did many good things with his life like discover America or helping the kings and queen of Spain.

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Downplay in Howard Zinn:
“The first man to sight land was supposed to get a large reward, but Rodrigo never got it. Columbus claimed that he has seen a light the evening before. He got the reward.”
Zinn ruins the fact that Columbus "found" America.

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Downplaying - Howard Zinn - Made it seem like Columbus was responsible for every Native American death when diseases killed more than he did.

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Downplay- When Zinn wrote about how Columbus was the first messenger to the Americans from the civilization of western europe, Zinn included how he was hungry for money in the same sentence.

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Downplay/Omission
Zinn didn´t mention any good deeds Columbus achieved. For example, he (rediscovered) America.

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Downplaying: Zinn uses statements that make Columbus look like an evil person. He uses sentences and words that explain only the bad things Columbus did like he burned down the indians and sold them for slaves.

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Omission:
Howard Zinn did not mention most of the positive things that Columbus had done, while the History Alive leaves out a bad thing that Columbus did, for example, capturing the people as slaves.

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Omission Howard Zinn didn't show any of the good things that Columbus did for Spain, just the bad things.

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Zinn went more into detail about enslaving all of the Arawaks and kidnapping them for information but History Alive didn't go into much detail about it

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Downplaying: Howard Zinn never mentioned any good of Columbus or anything positive he did.

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Downplay- Zinn didn’t mention how Columbus married a Portuguese woman who was the captain's daughter so then he got easy access of important maps.

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Downplaying/Omission
Zin left out the fact that Columbus was spreading Christianity to the Americas. History Alive left out that Columbus had taken the native Americans in for slavery.

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Downplaying

History Alive took the fact that Columbus enslave the native very lightly and dose not seem to think that it is very bad

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In History Alive, it omitted the facts about how Columbus treated the Native Americans

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Omission- Zinn left out the fact that many Native Americans died of the smallpox epidemic. Also, History Alive left out that Columbus took Native Americans as slaves.

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Omits- Zinn omits the fact that Columbus came across the unknown lands of North and South America.

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History Alive didn't mention how many slaves were taken they just said many people.

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Omission in Zinn- Zinn did not mention that Columbus had been studying the seas since he was young which would have made him seem more experienced. Also, Zinn did not mention that many of the Indians died from a disease called smallpox.