Brave New World (Blog #6)
Christopher Columbus has a day designated to him. He is well known throughout all American history classes. But do we really know him and what he truly did that faithful day he ran into what he called the "Indies"?
This man that sailed the ocean blue in 1492 is actually not what he seems as we learned from reading "Diario" a story and reading of a mans diary recollecting the tradgedy that happened when they encountered these "Indians" on their own land.
Met with kindness and generosity from the naïve and gullbile natives, Columbus takes advantage and takes all of their valuable trinkets for things of almost no value on his end. He is a truly treacherous man from this point of view. And not only does he take these peoples gold and tobacco, but he then proceeds to try and take them as servants for his king and so that they can be converted to his religion, Christianity. They were no more than objects in his eyes.
I believe that Columbus really just wanted to say that he found something and the natives were in the way of that so he had to get rid of most of them. This is why he used biological warfare to take them out as he realized they weren't immune to smallpox and the sort.
This goes to show that Columbus was actually much more evil than we first anticipated when learning about him in grade school. This shows that we should always look deeper than the history books.
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