Essay On Christopher Columbus's Impact On The New World

The first to see a new land and write about it can set the course for events that would dictate the future. This sentence describes the result of what one passage’s impact would have on the world. It is surprising to think that something written down can have an impact that is so great. Who would be the first author to make this impact? Many of the authors from the literature of the last two weeks have made some sort of impact on history, but only one had both elements of being the first to be made about the New World and how to deal with the New World. The one that carries the most impact would be in Christopher Columbus’s work with his, “Report of the First Voyage.” The first person to write about the New World would be the one that would
As one current writer say, “Columbus' efforts initiated the period of encounter between Europeans and Native Americans” (Grammer). The importance lies not only in what the person wrote down, but also when the person wrote it, and who would be receiving it first. The first person to receive a writing can dictate how widely dispersed and meaningful it is. The people that would receive these writings were the King and Queen of Spain. Upon attaining it they could use that passage for their advantage. After they received it, they could use this passage to justify for the sending of priests, bringing “civilization” to the land and its people, and showing that the people had more than enough resources to go around. If a small clerk or shopkeeper were the one to have received the message, then people now would not be writing or talking in the same way since the impact would have been less. This would also be the first news of the new world that anyone would be getting, setting expectations in the minds of the peoples of what the land and the people are like. This is ultimately where the misunderstanding would come