The conflict between Columbus and Indians became increasingly stronger as they knew each other deeper.Thinking himself as a higher level power, Columbus didn’t show enough respect to the indians, the points he saw on indians are how much revenue, how many gold they can gave and if they could follow the religious belief of them. Since Columbus had better weapons and boats, so he forced indians to learn their languages and to be obedient to the King and Queen of Spain. What’s more, he also brought disease which is lethal to indians at that time. Thus he is a villain.
During the route to the New World, Columbus didn’t realized that he also brought some diseases with him, the microorganism on the boat easily got into the Indian’s body and finished a cycle in 10 days. These disease are lethal to the Indians since they didn’t have enough technology as European had. Besides, after seeing the huge amount of gold Indian’s have Columbus forced many Amerindians to become slaves, and that is the start of the guilty black slave’s trade. Columbus did a real invasion to the Indians and began a disaster for them.
Sources:
Christopher Columbus & William Eleroy Curtis,“The Authentic Letters of Columbus”,1894. https://books.google.com/books?id=TKgKAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&hl=zh-CN#v=onepage&q&f=false
Suzanne Austin Alchon, “A Pest in the Land: New World Epidemics in a Global Perspective”, UNM Press, 2003.https://books.google.com/books?id=YiHHnV08ebkC&hl=zh-CN&source=gbs_navlinks_s
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