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In 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue. But should America really celebrate Christopher Columbus? Was he really responsible for finding America or was he just simply lucky? The real question is, should the American people praise a man who had killed many innocent people? Though Columbus Day is celebrated no one really knows for what reasons. Most Americans just enjoy their day off. Would they celebrate Columbus Day if they really knew the facts?

Christopher Columbus was an explorer funded by the Spanish king and Queen to find other lands, gold, goods, and other beings. As he was sent on his journey he stumbled upon a country in what is know today as America. At this time there on this mysterious land lived the Arawak Indians living in...show more content...

He made all of them– and some other slaves he already had upon his ship given to him by the king of Spain– look for gold that he himself could have and gold and goods that he could bring back with him.. Every slave who had in fact found him gold and goods would get a gold coin around their necks, if anyone whom in which did not have a gold coin hanging would be killed because they did not service him. Columbus called this land his and not only did he make the natives of the land his slaves but he also raped the women and he also brought the natives back to his land to sell them as slaves.

Now what are Americans really celebrating him for? Most people are naГЇve to Columbus but they really don't care or question it they just simply get a day off of work or school. It is a representation of an interpretation that passes for an explanation.

Columbus day is celebrated for giving the American people an opportunity to come and live on this land, for Columbus informed England of the "Golden Land" and there they sent their people to America and others started to migrate there because they thought that gold was falling from the sky and then the American people were born. Granted if he did not fall onto America maybe things would be different but all in all he was a selfish man, a man who only cared about his country and his alliances not for the natives in which he

Christopher Columbus set out on his voyage in 1942 on the West Indian islands, to find a new world for the Europeans. When he landed on the Caribbean Island the Indian Natives that lived there were at first scared but greeted him in a friendly manner. The conquest and settlement of the Western Hemisphere opened new opportunities for other Europeans such as the French, Dutch, English and Spanish to come to the island and colonize the Indian's land. For the Europeans to colonize and move in on Native land they had to find a way to interact with the Indians. Through their interaction they found cultural understandings and confusions that were documented by both the Europeans and the Indians. In the book, "Major Problems in American Colonial...show more content...

Indian women cooked, cleaned, build houses, planted corn, got lobsters and gathered flags. While their "lazy husbands" went fishing the Indian women would carry the fish and dry it for the next season. The Europeans saw the Indians gender roles within families as a sign of weakness for the husband and poor treatment of the wives. In the book, " Give Me Liberty" by Eric Foner, he states, " Europeans considered Indian men "unmanly"– too weak to exercise their authority within their families and restrain their wives open sexuality, and so lazy that they forced their wives to do most of the productive work" ( Foner, Pg 23). As a result the Europeans suggest bringing them freedom to liberate them from the unchristian gender roles. Wood suggests that the "ruder Indian men" should treat their women the way the English treat their wives with love and respect. This demonstrates how the Europeans expectations of the Indians are to be similar to their own culture. The Europeans are not trying to understand the Indians gender role but rather they are criticizing it and judging it for being different. In document one, "Captain John Smith Analyzes the Humane Scene, both English and Indian, in Early Jamestown, 1642. Captain John during his first Jamestown year, h explored Chesapeake Bay, in the course of which he was captured and taken to the paramount chief, Powhatan. Here he describes the Indians as wild

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Little may one know about Christopher Columbus, other than the fact that "Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492". Even though he was claimed to have discovered the Americas, he was never the first to arrive there because (according to historians) the Vikings were there first. But, his discovery led other people in Europe know about the Americas therefore changing the world. Columbus shaped the world as we know it today. Columbus was born around 1451 in the republic of Genoa (what today would be in Italy). As a teenager, he participated in some trading voyages in the Mediterranean and Aegean seas for a job to earn some money. When Columbus was young, voyages had always fascinated him so he decided to start sailing the seas, hoping he could discover something new. His first voyage to the Atlantic Ocean in 1476 nearly killed him when a group of French privateers attacked Columbus and his crew off the coast of Portugal. So Columbus had to swim all the way to Lisbon where he settled and married Felipa Perestrello. They had a son named Diego in about the year 1480. Columbus' wife died soon after Columbus went to Spain and then had a second son Fernando who was born out of Wedlock in 1488 with Beatriz Enriquez de Arana. Columbus studied Mathematics, Astronomy, Cartography, and Navigation at Lisbon which is where Columbus would start his quest to finding a new world. On his mission to discover a new world, he took his plan first to a Portuguese king for a three ship voyage,

Christopher Columbus is a very important person in our country's history. He found the "New World," the one we live in today. He started the society that makes us who we are today, the society that allowed our ancestors to come to America and start the life that we live now. This whole world owes their lives to him. Columbus should always be remembered as a very important and very good person in history.

Columbus made an especially daring trip when he set sail for the Indies. He knew he was headed for some rough water, bad weather, and maybe even an unwelcoming crowd of people.

When he left the shore he didn't know what was to lie ahead in his journey, but to say the least it was the most prosperousvoyage ever made. He opened so...show more content...

Columbus opened a ton of new opportunities for the Europeans. In this find, he gained money, people, land, and respect from theother countries. One of the big things that Columbus got out of this voyage was resources.

Columbus came across a wealth of things that would help them for life. They had a vast area of land to do whatever they wanted to do with it. They could use the water, oil, lumber, coal, and so many other things. They were faced with a new group of people, people they didn't know what to do with. These people could be used as slaves for their personal use, being they came in and took over the land, and with the land come the people. When Columbus found this New World, he brought a world of wealth back to the Spanish, later to be shared with all of Europe.

Now, in our present society, people are rethinking the goodness of Columbus and the actual impact that he had on our world. People feel that the killing of the American Indians was "unethical and morally wrong," says Janet Mckay in an article from TIME magazine ("Columbus Day in Cali" TIME MAGAZINE Oct. 15, 1995, pg. 17). When Columbus made the Voyage to the Americas it was a different time, a different way of life. People thought differently than we do today. In 1492 there were many internal conflicts in many countries. Fighting was a thing that was normal.

In the late 1400's and the early 1500's there was