https://padlet.com/dawsoncummings/9np33q7g1g4ebwhp en-us 2020-09-17 17:46:25 UTC 2020-09-25 14:55:17 UTC hello@padlet.com dawsoncummings https://padlet.com/dawsoncummings/9np33q7g1g4ebwhp/wish/779358465 Christopher Columbus lands on a Caribbean Island. Believing at first that he had reached the East Indies, then he took 6 by force. ]]> 2020-09-25 14:23:14 UTC https://padlet.com/dawsoncummings/9np33q7g1g4ebwhp/wish/779358465 dawsoncummings https://padlet.com/dawsoncummings/9np33q7g1g4ebwhp/wish/779449902 they sailed to what is now Cuba and took some of the Indians as prisoner and tried to force them to show Columbus where the gold was.]]> 2020-09-25 14:43:50 UTC https://padlet.com/dawsoncummings/9np33q7g1g4ebwhp/wish/779449902 dawsoncummings https://padlet.com/dawsoncummings/9np33q7g1g4ebwhp/wish/779457088 in Cuba Columbus was showed a gold mask and it led Columbus to wild visions of gold fields. ]]> 2020-09-25 14:45:29 UTC https://padlet.com/dawsoncummings/9np33q7g1g4ebwhp/wish/779457088 dawsoncummings https://padlet.com/dawsoncummings/9np33q7g1g4ebwhp/wish/779467447 they then built a fort and Columbus left 39 of his men there and they were tasked with finding and storing gold.]]> 2020-09-25 14:47:59 UTC https://padlet.com/dawsoncummings/9np33q7g1g4ebwhp/wish/779467447 dawsoncummings https://padlet.com/dawsoncummings/9np33q7g1g4ebwhp/wish/779473028 columbus then made a report to his majesties and said that the Indians would give you anything they had and would not say no. so the king sent over 16 ships and 1200 men.]]> 2020-09-25 14:49:22 UTC https://padlet.com/dawsoncummings/9np33q7g1g4ebwhp/wish/779473028 dawsoncummings https://padlet.com/dawsoncummings/9np33q7g1g4ebwhp/wish/779480309 they then went back to hati and found that the sailors left behind at Fort Navidad had been killed in a battle with the Indians, after they had roamed the island in gangs looking for gold, taking women and children as slaves for sex and labor. ]]> 2020-09-25 14:51:11 UTC https://padlet.com/dawsoncummings/9np33q7g1g4ebwhp/wish/779480309 dawsoncummings https://padlet.com/dawsoncummings/9np33q7g1g4ebwhp/wish/779489863  1495, they went on a great slave raid, rounded up fifteen hundred Arawak men, women, and children, put them in pens guarded by Spaniards and dogs, then picked the five hundred best specimens to load onto ships. Of those five hundred, two hundred died on route. The rest arrived alive in Spain and were put up for sale by the archdeacon of the town ]]> 2020-09-25 14:53:29 UTC https://padlet.com/dawsoncummings/9np33q7g1g4ebwhp/wish/779489863 dawsoncummings https://padlet.com/dawsoncummings/9np33q7g1g4ebwhp/wish/779494392  When the Spaniards took prisoners they hanged them or burned them to death. Among the Arawaks, mass suicides began, with cassava poison. Infants were killed to save them from the Spaniards. In two years, through murder, mutilation, or suicide, half of the 250,000 Indians on Haiti were dead. ]]> 2020-09-25 14:54:35 UTC https://padlet.com/dawsoncummings/9np33q7g1g4ebwhp/wish/779494392 dawsoncummings https://padlet.com/dawsoncummings/9np33q7g1g4ebwhp/wish/779497291  When it became clear that there was no gold left, the Indians were taken as slave labor on huge estates, known later as encomiendas. They were worked at a ferocious pace, and died by the thousands. By the year 1515, there were perhaps fifty thousand Indians left. By 1550, there were five hundred. A report of the year 1650 shows none of the original Arawaks or their descendants left on the island. ]]> 2020-09-25 14:55:17 UTC https://padlet.com/dawsoncummings/9np33q7g1g4ebwhp/wish/779497291