The Arrival of Christopher Columbus
Every month of October America celebrates Columbus Day. This day indeed is the celebration of the arrival of Christopher Columbus a Spanish explorer to the new found land on October 12, 1492. Indeed, the celebration Columbus Day of without a shadow of doubt marks the advent of a very significant era as well as the history of United States as it is known today. Undeniably, Columbus’s arrival heralded the massive migrations of the Europeans into America and the subsequent colonization of the newfound land.
Hence, this paper will examine and delve into the soul role and impact of Columbus arrival the impact of his arrival on the natives as well as the subsequent events that culminate into making his arrival not only significance to the author but to the Native Americans too.
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The most affected by the arrival of columbus were the well and higly organized as well as peaceful the Tainos. They relied on hunting, agriculture, in addition to fishing. They were divided into three distinict groups the Classic, the Eastern, and the Western. The Taino government is said to be comparable to the current political system of the United States. Indeed its due to the very fact that columbus contact with them did not only destry their history, culture and their political systems but increedibly reduced their populations drastically and those of many others by the regiments of the following europeans nations that included france, britain portugal inter alia. However, others who were as well affected were the Chisca whose dwellings were the west Tennessee. indeed their settlements were burnt down by the new imagrants, the extinction of the Hachaath, the Mandans and the Karankawa has been blames of the contact they had with European who followed Columbus trail and