Christopher Columbus’ Invasion of the New World Genocide is defined as the deliberate killing of people, especially those of a particular nation or ethnic group. Funded by royalty Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain, Christopher Columbus and many other men set off to find a direct water route west from Europe to Asia (1). He made four trips to in 1492, 1493, 1498 and 1502 and failed to accomplish his goal (1). Columbus is known for discovering the Americas when accidently sailing there instead. At the end of the 1400’s a problematic trip was the journey to Asia from Europe by land (1). The route was long and they would encounter enemies of Spain (1). Columbus had what he thought to be the solution to that problem. His solution was to sail west across the …show more content…
He seen the people and less than an underdeveloped with skills and they were very timid not speaking the same language as the Spaniards(2). Columbus’ thirst for “power and greed” took over him and started to enslave all natives. This came easy to them because they were armed with the latest weaponry. The natives were an easy target for the Spaniard. The natives were seen as “well-built people” but did not have the education to be compared to the advanced Spaniards (2).
The “Spanish tortured, maimed, raped, slaughtered, and burned” the Natives in search of gold (2). It was very common for the Spanish to be extremely harsh as they had one goal in mind witch was greed. They would torcher children, hang people, and even have dogs brutally attack them. Ferdinand and Isabella sought after power and declared themselves rulers of the natives and all that apposed were enslaved, torched, than killed. They saw the natives as property with this in mind they begun to dehumanize the kind and generous natives and started to view them as wild animals that needed to be tamed