Christopher Columbus - Criminal or Hero? In my full opinion I believe that Christopher Columbus was a Criminal. One of the reasons why I have this personal thought is because of his ill treatment to the Native Americans. An example would be his first arrival to the Americas, he immediately enslaved seven natives. There forced use was as translators for Columbus and his personal informants of the land, and where gold may be found.
The invocation of divine will is an example of one of the many ways in which Europeans sought to change the story about their relationship with Native Americans during America’s early history. They describe themselves as intellectually and culturally superior, as deserving of the land they call theirs. Jean O’Brien argues in her book Firsting that New English history utilizes narrative frameworks to erase Native American’s role in history United States Indian policy and history. This essay will argue that these frameworks utilize race and culture as divisive tools, as well as paternalistic ideals to claim power over Native Americans. Finally the re-scripting of events through diaries and other literature that describe Indian “occupation” rather than possession or nativity, or the “first” wedding in a New English colony to manufacture a status quo where the New English become native New Englanders, and where Indians become intruders in settlements rather than the land’s native inhabitants.
I do not believe that he was a good person, but we will never be able to forget the effects of his remarkable expedition halfway across the world had on our economy. The whole purpose of Columbus’s expedition was to find a new route to the riches of Asia. He was a great sailor who was determined to make a ton of money. After arriving on the islands of the Caribbean, Columbus was welcomed by the Native Americans. “They wore tiny ornaments in their ears.
Assignment - Focus Paper, The Broken Spears Using specific examples from the book, answer the following two questions: 1. What do the documents featured in the book tell us about the point of view of the people who wrote them, and about the experience of conquest by the Spanish? 2. In what ways do the accounts contained in The Broken Spears support arguments made in the textbook about the American (Columbian Exchange)? Identify gaps in coverage in both sources, keeping in mind that The Broken Spears is a primary source (the voices of people who actually witnessed or experienced the conquest of Mexico) and the textbook is a secondary source (written well after the fact and whose purpose is to convey broad coverage of modern world history).
American Holocaust: Columbus and the Conquest of the New World The inhumane and sadistic behavior of Columbus’ men was influenced by both the inherent violence in European society of their time and the opportunity to subject a race of people they thought to be inferior to their control. During Columbus’ lifetime Europe was governed by fanatical religious Christians and greedy rulers who’s main concern was to acquire as much gold and wealth as possible. Slave trade was a popular business at this time. Men, women, and children were captured during raids on tribes throughout Africa and forced into slavery. The Spanish Inquisition occurred at this time as well, in which people that didn’t convert to Catholicism were tortured and killed or put into slavery.
Horace Miners article Body Ritual among the Nacirema offers great insight into the relevance of Anthropology to modern society by way of satire. The article characterizes the Nacirema people of North America, “discovered” by Miner, and their perceived obsession with the human body. The author claimed to analyze rites and rituals among the Nacirema people. Upon realizing that the word Nacirema read backwards is American, it was easy to deduct that the article was in fact an elaborate description of American oral hygiene as well as a crude sketch of hospital and psychiatric care in our society. Miner detailed their rites and rituals from a purposely ethnocentric point of view which also served the purpose of describing American culture from the point of view of an extreme outsider.
Gold was a big money maker for these colonists. This was all they cared about. On the way over to America, the rich had their share of goods on the boat and so did the poor; the wealthy, more than the poor though. The richer
Babo, acting as the leader of the revolt, ordered the brutal slaying of any non useful sailors. The blacks aboard the ship become the masters to the remaining Spaniards. Babo begins to use many of the same actions a white slave owner would do to a black slave. Melville shows “this slavery breeds ugly passions in man” (Melville 77). Since slavery in itself is evil, it can be argued that the “evil” actions of someone while under the direct effects of slavery can be justified.
After an initial wave of conquistadors, Spain advantages was that the military had aided and infected diseases that decimated the native populations and defeated the pre-Columbian civilizations of the Aztecs, Mayans, and Incas. Spain organized a huge imperial system to exploit the land, labor, and mineral wealth of the New World. Their disadvantage was that when they were conquering Maya, because of the Yucatan jungle, their metal weapons would rust. Spain treated the Native American very badly like they were animals. For example, altogether, they execute a large group of people such as the Natives in Cuba, Dominica, and Mexico, and those who weren’t in the massacre was turned into slaves; and those whoever refused to convert to Christianity.
Pirates of the Caribbean: How Seafaring Bandits Impacted the World By Tiss Zaitz Pirate: One who robs, plunders and engages in similar acts at sea, not under the jurisdiction of one nation, but for his own splendor and personal gain. This definition gives a simple description of the modern idea of piracy in all its glorified and romanticized hype. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, however, describing piracy was a more complex task. Perspective played a large role in defining it; for one country’s pirate was another country’s freedom fighter. Other terminology complicates the attempt to define pirate, such as privateer, corsair and buccaneer, because they seem to share the same basic qualities but their origins and allegiances may vary.