How Did Christopher Columbus World Potency

Also, with gold almost to the point of extinction; and sugar being considered a luxury in Europe; Cristopher Columbus sailed himself into a journey to find riches for his queen. Columbus desired fame and fortune more than anything, and he found sympathizers in The Spanish monarchs Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile. They aimed to obtain the same fate, along with the opportunity to expand Catholicism to lands across the globe. After conquering the only area that had resisted the Reconquista, the campaign that aimed to expulse the Arabs out of the Peninsula in the 1200’s, the first Catholic Monarchs wanted to become a world potency. Upon arriving and seeing with his own eyes the first group of inhabitants of the New World, Columbus became perplexed and so he remarked:
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Columbus had already set standards to meet after his return from the Mother Land. His strategy was to set a colony supported by the exploitation of such Natives and search for gold. The news that gold could be extracted from an unexpected place; and that there were large masses of slaves ready to work the sugar plantations; expanded quickly across the country, and within a few months, the first “large scale conquering and colonizing mission had been assembled.”(The Birth of America 44) When the new carracks reached the Hispaniola, The Spaniards encountered themselves with a challenge. The men Columbus left behind refused to labor the land in order to feed themselves and had enraged the Natives by stealing their food and sexually abusing their women. By the time Columbus touched Native soil, they were all dead. The conflict between Native Americans