Christopher Columbus Research Paper

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Guillermo Munoz

Mrs. Ross

Advanced Western Civ.

September 28, 2015

Age of Invasion

Many Historians refer to the Columbus voyages as the Age of Exploration; however during this time period there was mass killing of natives,advancements in technology, and voyages that established European Colonies in the New World. Christopher Columbus made many great voyages between the time period of 1492-1503. One cannot deny the fact that Columbus leaves a grand and lasting legacy due to all the things he did while here on Earth. Christopher made four major voyages to what he thought was a new trade route to India between 1492 to 1503. These voyages were made under the sponsorship of the Spanish Crown. These voyages would be the first of

During this second trip Columbus was able to sail past the Bahamas and reach the Lesser and Greater Antilles. His third voyage departed May 1498 from Sanlucar, Spain with six ships. Three of these ships were sent with just materials to replenish the colonies that had been established throughout the Caribbean while the other three were sent to further explore the south Caribbean in hopes to find a passageway to Asia. In this exploration he made a sighting of what a lot of fresh water that meant that there had to be a continental landmass nearby. Due to getting sick Columbus was forced to return home. On his fourth voyage Columbus set out in search of a strait to the Indian Ocean. He set sail out of Cadiz in May of 1502 with four ships. He finally reached land in August of 1502 on what today would be Honduras and spent months exploring the country of Honduras, and other countries such as Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Panama. It took him two years before he finally reached home in

He was known enslave, rape, and kill the Native people for gold. DUe to Columbus action it is estimated that he killed of 98% of the native Taino people of Hispaniola. Columbus was the reason a lot of European diseases came to the natives that they were not immune to causing them to die. Many natives were killed due to overwork because they were forced to work for many hours in horrible conditions they were essentially made slaves to the spanish. It has been written down that at one point he organized several hundred men and over twenty attack dogs and set out and killed thousands of sick and unarmed natives. THey would use the captives for sword practice, or to try and cut them in half with a single sword slice. He also captured 1500 Arawak men, women, and children and shipped them off to be sold as