Christopher Columbus’s First Impression
The views of Columbus follow heavy Christian beliefs, and were told to either be followed with love, or forced upon the new Americas. Columbus stepped onto new territory with hopes of converting the Christian faith and also finding new goods for trade and pleasure. He was fascinated by the way they lived life, very poor, and unequipped. Almost without care is how I would describe it, wearing no or little clothing, carrying stale and out of date protection. It seemed that Americans were pleased to have leadership, but I also feel that they could have just been scared senseless to believe that they have been living a none righteous path, and believing in the wrong faith. He goes on to demonstrate how they are almost like children or just uneducated fools with no taste for common sense. I say this because it says in the writing that “he showed them swords and they took them by the edge.” The Americans had great physical standards according to Columbus the woman were very fit and beautiful and the men were very large in stature and carried themselves well. The Americans at the time gave Columbus there upmost attention by basically doing everything he asked they easily already fell into the Christian faith and they recited every prayer they were told because the Americans were convinced they came down from the heavens and made the sign of the cross often to show that they understand. Columbus goes on to describe how they are also far from poor if educated enough with trade, because it is obvious that they carry a large amount of riches with gold that the Americans wore all over there body, and they were very thick in size. Also carry many precious stones and pearls with an infinite supply of spices and cotton.
With this great new discovery of large enriched fields of wealth and a non violent crowd Columbus finds himself in a position of power having complete control of a society who thinks they were Gods angels. With such...