Andrew Zawie’s Comments
https://olinuris.library.cornell.edu/columbia-or-america/columbus
Observations and Excerpts: “Many of Columbus’ men died, the ships were lost and no passage to the west was ever found. Columbus himself would never sail again, and died convinced that he had found Asia, even if most of Europe already accepted the fact that the Americas were an unknown “New World.” This excerpt shows that Columbus wasn’t a “brilliant” mind, but just an explorer who was unable to comprehend his mistakes. Columbus is praised for discovering the New World but in his eyes, he never did. He just found the Far East.
http://web.mit.edu/thistle/www/v9/9.11/1columbus.html
Observations and Excerpts: “He promptly instituted policies of slavery (encomiendo) and systematic extermination against the native Taino population. Columbus’s programs reduced Taino numbers from as many as eight million at the outset of his regime to about three million in 1496. Perhaps 100,000 were left by the time of the governor’s departure.” This excerpt describes the numerous blows that Columbus and the Spaniards hit the Native Peoples with. The statistics presented show exactly why Columbus’ reputation was tainted with claims of genocide. They killed off so many innocent Native Americans for land and riches.
Chris Chae’s Comments
Source number one covers some of the background of Christopher Columbus. Having a solid introduction about Christopher Columbus with a source to back up the information will create a strong foundation for the paper to be based around.
Source number two covers some of the negative effects of of Christopher Columbus’ arrival to foreign lands. My paper will cover why Christopher Columbus was actually villain, therefore having a source on some of the negative events that occurred because of his arrival will help back up some of my points in my paper.