Our History: The Accounts Of Three Explorers

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Our History: The Accounts of Three Explorers The stories of explorers discovering new worlds have been written down and passed along through the centuries. They recall the adventures and landscapes that famous explorers encountered as well as the inhabitants that were already living there. Sir Francis Drake, Fray Toribo de Benevente and Christopher Columbus tell three different written accounts of these interactions during their discoveries of the New World. All three of these men were faced with similar situations of rituals and ways of life, recording important and historical documents. By the same token, they left out many details and presented in some cases obvious bias, resulting in the accuracy and validity of their stories of these natives being weakened, debilitating the accurate knowledge of our history today. Christopher Columbus was considered the first successful explorer to have explored the New World. Under the rule and funding of the King of Spain, this expedition was for his majesty King Ferdinand, “ Because my undertakings have attained success, I know that it will be pleasing to you: these I have determined to relate, so that you may be made acquainted with everything done and discovered in this our voyage.” Automatically we are shown his writings about his discoveries and encounters are filtered to comfort the King who is funding the project. Columbus’s hidden goal was to most probably attain more land for sea trade and domain in general for his European homeland, but also to convert the populace of the New World to Christianity, “ and I gave to them many beautiful and pleasing things that I had brought with me, no value being taken in exchange, in order that I might the more easily make them friendly to me, that they might be made worshipers of Christ”. The culture, well-being and reactions of the natives seemed to be trivial facts, as

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