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Indians "are so naive and so free with their possessions that no one who has not witnessed them would believe it. When you ask for something they have, they never say no."

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Arawak were rewarded with copper when finding gold. If they failed, their hands were chopped off and bled to death.

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Francisco de Bobadilla tainted Columus' name.

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Arawak natives warm welcome with giving away their possessions willingly.

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It was not his orders for his men to kill, and this caused him great pain.

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He did not set sail to conquer new land, or find gold.

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He set sail to liberate Jerusalem.

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It was interesting how the source discusses two different viewpoints and perspectives from Columbus' arrival and the Natives greeting them.

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"I believe that in the world there are no better people or a better land. They love their neighbors as themselves, and they have the sweetest speech in the world; and [they are] gentle and are always laughing"

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People were forced to mine for gold:
Every person of 14 years of age or upward was to pay a large amount of  gold dust

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When Columbus did not find gold in the new world, he sent the Native Americans back to Spain instead as slaves.

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Mothers would prefer to kill or abort their babies to prevent them from living the atrocitites brought by Columbus. In the document it states, " Others after delivery have killed their children with their own hands, so as not to leave them in such oppressive Slavery."

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Mothers would prefer to kill or abort their babies to prevent them from living the atrocitites brought by Columbus. In the document it states, " Others after delivery have killed their children with their own hands, so as not to leave them in such oppressive Slavery."

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- The Spanish set up a tribute system in which the native people were forced to mine for gold. The Spanish punished them severely if they did not bring enough gold back.

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- The Spanish set up a tribute system in which the native people were forced to mine for gold. The Spanish punished them severely if they did not bring enough gold back.

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"I could conquer the whole of them  with fifty men and govern them as I pleased."

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"I could conquer the whole of them  with fifty men and govern them as I pleased."

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This was how Columbus responded when he arrived to the Caribbean.