Christopher Columbus Readings by Nicholas Alegria https://padlet.com/nicholas_alegria/nha51p7ax9wne14b en-us 2023-04-11 03:13:43 UTC 2023-04-12 01:11:11 UTC hello@padlet.com "I could conquer the whole of them with fifty men and govern them as I pleased." https://padlet.com/nicholas_alegria/nha51p7ax9wne14b/wish/2550873247 This was how Columbus responded when he arrived to the Caribbean. ]]> 2023-04-12 00:54:50 UTC https://padlet.com/nicholas_alegria/nha51p7ax9wne14b/wish/2550873247 - 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. https://padlet.com/nicholas_alegria/nha51p7ax9wne14b/wish/2550873734 2023-04-12 00:55:12 UTC https://padlet.com/nicholas_alegria/nha51p7ax9wne14b/wish/2550873734 https://padlet.com/nicholas_alegria/nha51p7ax9wne14b/wish/2550874301 When Columbus did not find gold in the new world, he sent the Native Americans back to Spain instead as slaves.]]> 2023-04-12 00:55:39 UTC https://padlet.com/nicholas_alegria/nha51p7ax9wne14b/wish/2550874301 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." mbobadilla95 https://padlet.com/nicholas_alegria/nha51p7ax9wne14b/wish/2550875071 2023-04-12 00:56:17 UTC https://padlet.com/nicholas_alegria/nha51p7ax9wne14b/wish/2550875071 https://padlet.com/nicholas_alegria/nha51p7ax9wne14b/wish/2550878585 "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"]]> 2023-04-12 00:58:58 UTC https://padlet.com/nicholas_alegria/nha51p7ax9wne14b/wish/2550878585 https://padlet.com/nicholas_alegria/nha51p7ax9wne14b/wish/2550879364 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 

]]> 2023-04-12 00:59:33 UTC https://padlet.com/nicholas_alegria/nha51p7ax9wne14b/wish/2550879364 https://padlet.com/nicholas_alegria/nha51p7ax9wne14b/wish/2550879402 He set sail to liberate Jerusalem.]]> 2023-04-12 00:59:35 UTC https://padlet.com/nicholas_alegria/nha51p7ax9wne14b/wish/2550879402 https://padlet.com/nicholas_alegria/nha51p7ax9wne14b/wish/2550880216 He did not set sail to conquer new land, or find gold.]]> 2023-04-12 01:00:10 UTC https://padlet.com/nicholas_alegria/nha51p7ax9wne14b/wish/2550880216 POV ervin_mendez1 https://padlet.com/nicholas_alegria/nha51p7ax9wne14b/wish/2550880984 It was interesting how the source discusses two different viewpoints and perspectives from Columbus' arrival and the Natives greeting them.]]> 2023-04-12 01:00:47 UTC https://padlet.com/nicholas_alegria/nha51p7ax9wne14b/wish/2550880984 https://padlet.com/nicholas_alegria/nha51p7ax9wne14b/wish/2550881100 It was not his orders for his men to kill, and this caused him great pain. ]]> 2023-04-12 01:00:53 UTC https://padlet.com/nicholas_alegria/nha51p7ax9wne14b/wish/2550881100 https://padlet.com/nicholas_alegria/nha51p7ax9wne14b/wish/2550882015 Francisco de Bobadilla tainted Columus' name. ]]> 2023-04-12 01:01:38 UTC https://padlet.com/nicholas_alegria/nha51p7ax9wne14b/wish/2550882015 Hospitality ervin_mendez1 https://padlet.com/nicholas_alegria/nha51p7ax9wne14b/wish/2550882672 Arawak natives warm welcome with giving away their possessions willingly.]]> 2023-04-12 01:02:09 UTC https://padlet.com/nicholas_alegria/nha51p7ax9wne14b/wish/2550882672 24K ervin_mendez1 https://padlet.com/nicholas_alegria/nha51p7ax9wne14b/wish/2550883674 Arawak were rewarded with copper when finding gold. If they failed, their hands were chopped off and bled to death.]]> 2023-04-12 01:02:58 UTC https://padlet.com/nicholas_alegria/nha51p7ax9wne14b/wish/2550883674 Quote ervin_mendez1 https://padlet.com/nicholas_alegria/nha51p7ax9wne14b/wish/2550894112 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."]]> 2023-04-12 01:11:11 UTC https://padlet.com/nicholas_alegria/nha51p7ax9wne14b/wish/2550894112