HIS106Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: La Isabela, Greater Antilles, Encomienda
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Europeans did not think the world was flat, they knew it was round, and that there were other islands in the atlantic. They just thought the atlantic was too big to cross. Columbus thought that asia was closer to europe that they thought, and so thought that"s (cid:449)here he arri(cid:448)ed. He died believing he had reached asia, not a new continent. Columbus is often described as an agent of genocide. He did not arrive with the intention of wiping out indigenous peoples. They wanted people as slaves and to work them, but they were extremely cruel, and the actions contributed to indigenous population decline. Indigenous resisted invasion from the start, but in some cases collaborated, feeling it was beneficial for them to adapt. Spaniards established patterns of domination, conquest, and control in the. Europeans are the one describing the encounters, with very little sources surviving from the.
