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He was named a messenger to the Natives but was in it for money

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Zinn exaggerated the fact that the only thing Columbus wanted was slaves, gold, etc. He claimed many negative things about how Columbus wanted money. For example, "...was hungry for money."

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The whole Zinn story he exaggerated how horrible Columbus was. He told us how Columbus told the mans reward who spotted land.

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Columbus seized some Arawaks by force so that he could find out where the gold is.

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Zinn uses a letter that Columbus wrote and that note shows how he was willing to hurt innocent people for money and gold.In the text it states that he says that he will do anything to give Spain all of the slaves and gold that they need.

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Zinn exaggerated how Columbus took the credit for everything on his voyage even though he might had not done everything. He made it sound like Columbus was a bad guy and stole credit.

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Vague
He brushes over the part that they were doing it for Christianity.

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“... he was hungry for money,” Zinn could have said that Columbus wanted the money instead, but by using the word "Hungry," it makes Columbus seem more greedy.

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Zinn is vague about how Columbus convinced the Spaniards to sponsor his trip and the time and effort he put into his research to come up with his plan on how to reach the Indies.

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History Alive made sure to put in the creating of the voyage when they talked to the Queen and the King and getting the ships

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There are many times where Zinn is too vague about the accomplishments that Columbus made. For instance, Zinn was too general about how Columbus led three ships to many lands in 33 days without food.

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Zinn exaggerated the fact that he seized Arawaks by force even though he only took about 5 or 6 for navigation purposes.

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Zinn exaggerated about the way the Native Americans died out and vague about the way they did die out. "For example, Zinn says, 'In two years, through murder or suicide, half of them were dead.' Zinn left out that most of the deaths were caused by smallpox and disease."

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Zinn exaggerated how the native Americans were killed:
They picked up 500 hundred captives and killed hundreds of Indians.

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"Columbus had talked the king and queen of Spain into paying for his expedition." Zinn said this, but many other stories said that the king and queen said yes after about 1 year. Zinn used "talked" instead of saying that the king and queen "let" him go on the expedition.

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"Indians who did give gold to the Spaniards had their hands cut off and bled to death."

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Zinn exaggerates on how mean Columbus was to the Natives and how he only wanted gold

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Zinn makes it seem like the Native Americans died mostly because of Columbus's men killed them. For example: “They were overworked and mistreated and died by the thousands.”Actually, most of them died because of the smallpox brought by the cattle.

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EXAGGERATION:
Zinn exaggerated what Columbus did to the Native Americans when he first arrived to the "New World".

An example in the text was:
"As soon as he arrived in the islands, he seized some Arawaks by force so that he could get information from them."

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Columbus and The Monarchs were hungry for money, which is also Omission.