Questions about Columbus

Columbus did not sail for discovery, but was a representative of the Spanish royal family (that is, colonialism). Without Columbus, there would not be the United States today, so Americans regard him as a gentleman; similarly, without Columbus, the Indian civilization on the American continent would have made its contribution to the world today, and neither would the 40 million Indians. Become an injustice.

￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣

The following quote is from/

On October 1, 1492, an Italian with a Spanish flag in On the deck that was wet by the sea water, I saw the endless forest-covered land floating above the vast sea water. This man named Columbus later had mixed reputations. On the one hand, he was the outstanding discoverer of the American continent, and on the other hand, he was a notorious colonial plunderer. However, he did not know that what he discovered was a new continent. He simply believed that it was a shortcut to the East Indies. When Columbus first landed on the American continent, the native Indians welcomed them and they conducted the initial trade on the beach. The Europeans exchanged their cheap glass products for the Indians' expensive gems. At this time, Columbus and his followers were apparently content with similar fraud, and they got along well with the Indians. When Columbus came for the second time, he was no longer a discoverer but a conqueror. By his agreement with the Spanish crown, he became governor of the West Indies and admiral of the seas he discovered. Columbus began his bloody rule, and his successors were even more brutal. The final result was that more than 1 million Indians were killed, exhausted, starved to death, frozen to death, and died of disease. The Indians in the West Indies Miserably accepting the fate of extinction.

The news spread to Europe, and the Spanish and Portuguese, the French and the British, the Dutch and other Europeans crossed the ocean and swarmed like mosquitoes towards the mysterious American continent. , began a ruthless frenzy of conquest. Neruda called them a group of people wearing dentures and wigs in his poem. In the next 300 years, this group of colonial plunderers reduced the Indian population of 40 million to 9 million, turning the idyllic The Indian world has become a horrific hell on earth. At the same time, Spain shipped back 2.5 million kilograms of gold and 1 million kilograms of silver from the Americas. Britain, France and other European countries also looted large amounts of gold and silver treasures.