Although Christopher Columbus had many positive impacts on both the America's and Europe because of his discovery of the new world, he should be considered a villain due to the massive amount of deaths he caused. When Christopher Columbus arrived in the America's his intentions were purely sinister. He sought to find gold in the America's to bring back to Spain and even took Native Americans forcing them to help him find it. In addition, he treated Native American's terribly forcibly taking 500 of them back to Europe as well as enslaving thousands more. He would send these slaves on gold hunts for his own benefit and if they came back with nothing he would cut their hands off leaving them to bleed to death. Also he killed thousands of Native American's both intentionally and unintentionally. If groups of Native Americans would resist to being taken as slaves he would commit mass murders slaughtering groups of them. Also in his arrival, in addition to the fear he brought with him he also brought many diseases that the Native Americans were not immune to. These diseases caused massive deaths of Native Americans and spread like wildfire. Also Columbus was a selfish, greedy person even before he found America. On the Santa Maria, the first person to sight land was suppose to get a yearly pension of 10,000 maravedis for life and when one man claimed he spotted land, Columbus said he saw it before him and took the pension. Christopher Columbus was an overall greedy, horrible man who destroyed the lives of the peaceful Indians all for his own selfish desire.
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