Christopher Columbus Slavery

By the end of the XV century, Europeans knew only three continents: Europe, Asia, and Africa. The existence of a vast continent of America, they did not know. The first sailor who attempted to reach India by the West was Christopher Columbus. He was born in Italy, near Genoa, in the Weaver family. All Columbus life was connected with the sea. In his youth, he participated in several voyages and then engaged in drawing maps. In the summer of 1492, three small caravels with a team of 90 people set sail from Spain. Spanish ships moored to a small island. Hence, in search of gold, Columbus headed south and opened the large islands of Cuba and Haiti. In the coming years, Columbus made three more trips to the west. He discovered many islands in the
She erected a giant construction using stone tools and human labor, has created a writing system and priesthood. And this same civilization practiced ritual killing of thousands of people sacrificed to the gods. The cruelty of the Aztecs, however, did not destroy a certain degree of simplicity. When the Spanish Armada sailed to Veracruz, and when a bearded white man with unknown animals (horses) came ashore in the decoration of the iron, the Aztecs believed that this is the legendary God-man, who died three hundred years before, and promised to return. And so they welcomed it, showing extraordinary hospitality.In fact, it was Hernán Cortés, who arrived from Spain with the expedition, paid by merchants and landowners, and blessed God's representative on earth, with the sole purpose of obsession: to find gold. Cortes began its death march from town to town, using deception, paying the Aztecs against the Aztecs, killing with an extreme sophistication that was part of his strategy is that to paralyze the will of the local population by means of sudden horrific acts. Then conquistadors looted the city and
with the arrival of the first European travelers, traders, fishermen in North America begins the history of Euro-Indian contacts. The main content of the process vza¬imodeystviya two civilizations became European expansion. Native Americans in the territorial, demographic, socio-cultural and political relations was marginal. "Europeanization" of the North American continent does not simply mean the displacement or destruction of the indigenous civilization and approval in its place, as it were again reproduced societies and cultures of countries of origin, though, when the America's maps appeared New England, New France, Nova Scotia, and so on. N., Externally it looked that way. "Europeanization" was first of all that in this gigantic historical interaction and the synthesis is of European origin (from demographics and the nature of work to the cultural values and traditions of political sovereignty) have become unconditionally