Pros And Cons Of Christopher Columbus Casas

When you hear the names of Christopher Columbus, Alonso Zuazo, and Bartolomé delas Casas, do you think of good characteristics of them? There are people that agree or disagree if these individuals actually made history without taking credit from someone else. Native Americans plays a big part with all these individuals. I’ll discuss the exploitation of Christopher Columbus, Alonso Zuazo, and Bartolomé delas Casas. Also, how the Native Americans were enslaved, labor source being required, and replacements were found.

There were arguments whether Christopher Columbus was a hero or a villain if he truly discovered land for the first time. Columbus wrote in his journal from August 1492 all the way through October 1492 that took place in Spain. Throughout his writings he mentions “the king” as if it was his

This is where Indies were founded but now called the Hispaniola. These Spanish Christians were honest, no grudges, and etc. According to “Brief Account of the Devastation of the Indies” there were cons about them, for instance, “…so weak and complaisant, they are less able to endure heavy labor and soon die.” The Hispaniola had a total of 12 million Native Indians on the island and blaming the church being involved somewhat. When the Spaniards noticed some of the Native Indians escaped, he sent out a ship where it took several years to find them to kill. But before that, they would have slain the individuals or even sell them to slavery. All of these killings were to collect any gold they could find according to “Brief Account of the Devastation of the Indies” , “Their reason for killing and destroying such an infinite of souls is that the Christians have an ultimate aim, which is to acquire gold.” Eventually the killings and violence did end leaving everything a wreck where milk in the breasts were dried up, men died in mines being separated from their love ones, so much distressed and hunger it just led more to