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State Rep. And it is not just YouTube. The same can be found in articles in Huffington Post , the Guardian , and The New Yorker , and many , many other publications that have saturated the culture, all written by smug, self-confident leftists with a colossal ignorance of history.
That illustrates how thoroughly saturated our society has become with leftist lies. It appears that some of the detractors have no real interest in accuracy, but in forwarding an agenda, because the errors appear deliberate none can even read Spanish. Books can lie, just like people, especially if they are written by a Communist histories written by Marxists tend to be caricatures.
It has succeeded. And Christopher Columbus has been one of his victims. Nor is Zinn alone. Two Arawaks were run through with swords and bled to death. This incident occurred on the return trip from his first voyage.
Hitherto, whenever Indians had been encountered, they had initially run away, thinking that the explorers were cannibals. Cannibals ranged widely among the islands in boats, landing and capturing their meals; they would take them home alive and if, they were adult males, were castrated in order to improve their flavor. When it was clear that the Spaniards were not cannibals, the Indians welcomed them, thinking that they came from heaven.
A brisk trade ensued for the gold nuggets that the natives wore. In Hispaniola, the gold was so abundant that nuggets could be found among the tree roots gold was the only metal they knew since they were still in the Stone Age. Again, and again, Columbus ordered his men not to steal anything and to respect the Indians, to trade, not steal. When Columbus encountered the island that Zinn mentions, the dynamics were different.
The natives were told to leave their bows, arrows, and ropes off to one side. Columbus traded for two bows he had collected plants, animals, foods, and crafts to take back as proof of his voyage , but the natives refused to trade any more. When the Spaniards were about to leave, the fifty cannibals ran to their bows and arrows and the ropes with which to tie up their dinner and rushed to the seven Spaniards to overwhelm them.
For once, their dinner fought back. One cannibal was stabbed in the buttocks and another in the chest, whereupon they all fled. During the second voyage, they entered a deserted village, they found a human arm in the process of being roasted and pots full of human bones.
The captured noncannibal women begged to be taken away. They also found out that the cannibals had a curious arrangement: their women lived apart in another island; periodically, they got together to mate. The boys would then be brought up by the men and the girls by the women.
Incidentally, cannibalism was very popular among the indigenous people in South America, not so much in North America. But a mountain of details is deliberately left out that gives a totally different picture. This is a common tactic. By being brief, yet accusatory, it is like a drive-by shooting.
There is just one little problem. It is a fraud. Aside from internal inconsistencies, the letter also mentions temples in the Caribbean. There were no temples in the Caribbean; the naked Indians lived in crude huts.
Now, before I bring up other clarifications, the reader must understand how things stood at this period of history. First, contrary to later centuries, all of Europe, including Spain, was poor. Europe lacked substantial gold and silver mines, just as it today lacks oil. The kings and queens were not as rich as thought of; in fact, the Spanish monarchy was close to be insolvent.
Second, just as today the cost of space exploration is a preoccupation, so was the exploration of the New World seen as costly, and justification for exploration had to be found i.
Third, Columbus himself was poor. So, the preoccupation to find gold, which modern intellectuals turn up their noses at while simultaneously groveling for jobs and tenure and higher pay is perfectly understandable. Besides, the magnetic fascination for finding gold still exists today.
Third, Christianity had long ago abolished slavery in Europe, but constant exposure to Muslims had made Iberians re-accustomed to the idea, particularly in Spain, which had recently finally expelled the last of the Muslim kingdoms, and Muslim culture was still present; another slave-owning Muslim kingdom lay just across the Straits of Gibraltar. And slavery still exists today—in several Muslim countries.
In fact, because of the recent increase in immigration of Muslims, Europe is now seeing a resurgence of slavery. Besides, slavery was practiced worldwide, including by Africans and Native Americans, when Europeans re-adopted it centuries later in North America. When Columbus years later suggested making slaves out of the natives, he was very specifically referring to the cannibals , for whom he had developed a deep loathing for obvious reasons, and not the peaceful natives and, frankly, I personally find nothing repulsive with that suggestion.
Fourth, he is also just as irrationally blamed for the new diseases that decimated the natives in decades to come, after his death, forgetting all the diseases from the natives that ravaged Europeans. The diseases that the natives were vulnerable to were not introduced on purpose and, if tens of thousands of indigenous people died from smallpox, tens of thousands of Europeans died from syphilis.
Fifth, and most importantly, as I have related elsewhere , the armies of these times lacked the rigid discipline that is nowadays commonplace and would be introduced in the s. One must remember that such was the insubordination that European nobles often revolted against the Crown. In , when Cortes assembled a group of men to conquer Mexico, he was going against orders. It is surprising that Columbus has not also been criticized for his ships lacking transgender bathrooms.
To return to Columbus. In the meantime, one of the three ships had been destroyed in the reefs of Hispaniola. Columbus decided to leave 39 men, most of whom had eagerly requested to do so, in a constructed fort, La Navidad, with very strict orders to treat the natives with respect and to continue trading for gold. He demonstrated the cacique the use of a cannon by firing it towards the sea, telling the natives that they would protect against the cannibals. Thirty-nine men—rough sailors—left on an island.
Sailors who are poor. Some who had come directly from prison. Which island is abundant in gold. Except for Canadian subscriptions, payment must be made in U. Please specify whether you wish to receive the English, French or Spanish edition. Text Size: A A A.
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