Columbus Vs Adam Smith

It is sad seeing well educated and wealthy people being singleminded who don't see the positivity even in the little things that might seem as unnecessary. These people are the ones who are not willing to search for wealth if its not given to them easily. Adam Smith is one of them. On his Wealth of Nations he stated: “But the countries which Columbus discovered, either in this or in any of his subsequent voyages, had no resemblance to those which he had gone in quest of. Instead of the wealth, cultivation, and populousness of China and Indostan [India], he found, in St. Domingo [St. Domingue, later Haiti], and in all the other parts of the new world which he ever visited, nothing but a country quite covered with wood, uncultivated, and inhabited only by some tribes of naked and miserable savages.” I am strongly against Adam Smith’s statement because these countries' wood, uncultivated and “the naked” population are the wealth of these countries that Spanish and different colonies appreciate and wish to make it theirs.
Spain which was considered the biggest European country, was one the first colonies to arrive in the New World. Spanish colonization travel to the New World with a clear goal which was to find the land, work and become wealthy. Spain was the first European nation who found wealth and succeeded into the New World. As it is stated on the second chapter of the book, The American Yawp, “Spain benefited most immediately as the wealth of the Aztec and Incan Empires strengthened the Spanish monarchy. Spain used its new riches to gain an advantage over other European