USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -About six months later, in September 1493, Columbus returned to the Americas. He found the Hispaniola settlement destroyed and left his brothers Bartolomeo and Diego Columbus behind to rebuild, along with part of his ships’ crew and hundreds of enslaved indigenous people.

Detailed explanation-2: -Columbus brought back small amounts of gold as well as native birds and plants to show the richness of the continent he believed to be Asia.

Detailed explanation-3: -Columbus probably took the natives back to Spain so they would learn Spanish. Bilingual Indians were translators who helped spread Christianity in the Americas, he said.

Detailed explanation-4: -Columbus promised his benefactors, King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain, to bring back gold, spices, and silks from the Far East, to spread Christianity, and to lead an expedition to China.