The Burr-Hamilton Duel. Zinn Chapter 1- Study questions 1. Zinn says that Columbus is traditionally portrayed as a world hero, who was the great and admirable discover of the Americas. Africa also impressed the Europeans with their well-built economic structure and the trade within cities. Europe greatly overpowered Africa militarily however, with better guns and ships.
Slavery in Africa was very similar to the peasants in Europe, which was a hard, laborious life yet still having the ability marry, own property, etc. The conditions on the Middle Passage were horrible. The space allotted to each slave was often too small to move the shoulders and the neck and legs were chained down.
Many slaves died on the voyage and never made it out of the hull of the slave ships. The slave trade in North America originated because plantation owners in the South need large amounts of cheap labor and there was not enough European servants coming to the Americas. His thesis is that Christopher Columbus was not a real hero.
For the Indians, Columbus considered as an abuser. According to Zinn, how is Columbus portrayed in traditional history books? According to Zinn, Columbus was portrayed as a heroic figure who pioneered a new world. Traditional history books emphasized the heroism of Columbus and his successors as navigators and discoverers.
Zinn's basic criticism of historian Samuel Eliot Morison's book is that Morison covered Columbus' cruelty, and de-emphasized his story of genocide. What major issues does Bartolome de las Casas bring up regarding Spanish expeditions in the Caribbean?
Bartolome de las Cases brings up the issue that t otal control led to total cruelty. Identify one early and one subsequent motive that drove Columbus to oppress indigenous peoples. Columbus used gold to oppress indigenous people. Gold was his material that he could govern the Arawak Indians. What was the ultimate fate of the Arawak Indians? The ultimate fate of the Arawak Indians was death. Columbus and his followers fell upon an Indian settlement, killed fifteen or sixteen Indians, burned the houses, cut down the corn growing around the village, took the queen of the tribe and her children into boats.
What was the significance of Quetzalcoatl? He states all their accomplishments that they made without the help of the English. They build large buildings placed among mountains and cliffs to protect from enemies. They used irrigation canals, ceramics, made cloth out of cotton, and weaved baskets before European explorers. You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Google account. You are commenting using your Twitter account.
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