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Christopher Columbus Worst Mass Killing Essay

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What’s one of the worst mass killings in the entire history of the world that you can think of off the top of your head? Well one of the worst mass killing that has happened was when Christopher Columbus discovered the new world and made contact with all of the indians in the new world. The europeans killed millions upon millions of people because of Christopher’s discovery just by sailing the ocean blue in 1982 and wiped out about 50 to 90% of the Indians. That is only one of the reasons why I’m on the side that all the things that Christopher Columbus did was bad for the new world, back then, and for the entire world. I could name a million things that he, and the europeans, have done that are extremely bad, given time, but I’m only going to name a few for now. For starters, Christopher Columbus and all of his european pals sailed the ocean to try and find a faster way to india so they could trade more things and make more money and just being greedy in general. But, instead, he sailed right into the land that today is now known as North America, but back then it was called the new world because it was new, and he made contact with the indian’s living their. He and the …show more content…

He said that the people of the new world rushed to the beaches, as the came ashore, and were praising him saying that that they were a gift from heaven and that they should give them all of the food and water immediately. But really, in actuality, Christopher didn’t even know the language of the new people and wouldn’t have any idea of what they were saying so there was no way that what he wrote in his journal actually happened. In fact, the indians were terrified of the new people that had washed ashore and had no idea of who or what they were and couldn’t even understand what they were saying

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