FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS
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He sailed to the area that is now the United States.
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He sailed to India and the rest of Asia.
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He left the native people alone
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He forced some of the native people into slavery.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Throughout his years in the Americas, Columbus forced natives to work for the sake of profits. Later, he sent thousands of Taino “Indians” to Spain to be sold, and many of them died during the journey. The natives who weren’t sold into slavery were forced to look for gold in mines and work on plantations.
Detailed explanation-2: -He landed on a small island in the Bahamas, which he named San Salvador. He claimed the island for the King and Queen of Spain, although it was already populated. Columbus called all the people he met in the islands ‘Indians’, because he was sure that he had reached the Indies.
Detailed explanation-3: -On his second voyage in 1493, he sailed with seventeen ships and about 1200 men, arriving in Hispaniola in late November to find the fort of La Navidad destroyed with no survivors. Near its ruins, on the northern coast of the present-day Dominican Republic, he founded the short-lived town of Isabella.
Detailed explanation-4: -"Columbus thought he had discovered a new route to the Indies, but he had really traveled to what we now call the Americas.” “Columbus thought the natives ‘would be good servants, ’ but trying to make slaves out of them was so unsuccessful that eventually Spain imported slaves from Africa."