Read Howard Zinn's account of the encounter between Christopher Columbus and the Native people of Hispanola from People's History go the United States.
What is Zinn's perspective on Columbus? How is it different from other perspectives you have heard?
I thibk Zinn...
ReplyDeleteMr. Lapidus
Zinn's perspective on Christopher Columbus could be labeled as harsh. He explained that Columbus was cruel and that he was a mass murderer. Because of him, the Arawak race became extinct. Columbus caused a mass genocide toward them, according to Zinn atleast.
ReplyDeleteZinn's perspective is different from others I have heard. According to others, Columbus was a great man, the first man to discover America at that. Also that he was a man full of determination due to him never giving up on trying to find gold.
andrea rivera
ReplyDelete-zinns perspective: he said that Christopher Columbus was wrong and who committed genocide and attacks people
-this is different from what I hear, because everyone has said something good about it, and what Zinn says something totally different and opposite of what they had heard
In my country there is a facts that the Indies exchanged their gold for mirror...
ReplyDeleteRamon Antonio Capellan
Usually, Columbus is Labeled as the Person who Claims he "Discovered" America, but he was also Responsible for the Coumbian Exchange which was the transfer of people, animals, plants, and diseases back and forth from the Americas to Europe. Although, In Zinn's Perspective, Columbus was a Heartless Murderer, who Killed Many, leaving the Arawak race extinct.
ReplyDelete- Charles Nunez
Zinn's perspective on Columbus was that he would never have made it to Asia. Also that mass murderer. Zinn's perspective is different from everybody else perspective. He was the person to Discovered America.
ReplyDelete-RACHEL AYALA
zinn's perspective on Columbus was a horribe man and horribe person.He made columbus look like a murder a cold blooded person that killed a popoultion of people and didnt care for any body else
ReplyDeleteEvery body perspective on Columbus is the man who discover america or a person who send all this animals and all those horrible diseases.On my opinion i think zinns opinion on columbus is kinda true because alot of people where killed of diseases everything that he did wasnt all good.
luis morales;)
Zinn's opinion about colombus was making him look a bad person, a person who attacked a lot of people.
ReplyDeleteEdwin Macas :)
zinn's opinion on christopher columbus was that he was a bad man whos done nothen but bad things to people as in killing them and because of him the arawak doesnt exist any more but if you ask some one on the street who is chistopher culumbus they would tell you that he's the man who discovered america and never gave up on trying to find gold...... "BRANDON.MEALING"
ReplyDeleteI think Columbus did well and bad. Why?? Example: you're walking, and you see a bill, and it's a 100$ bill. What you gonna do?? take the 100$ or you just leave the bill??..... but, he did bad when he took the native (Indies) as slaves.
ReplyDeleteSomething different: In Dominican Republic they teached me Columbus took all the gold.. in the reading says there was no-gold
-Ramon Luciano Capellan
i heard that Columbus was a good, fair person.. by reading zinn's opinion, my thoughts about columbus, changed drastically. columbus is a jerk who used the indians for free labor and sex. thats not cool also treated them like nothing. he took litterly evrything from these people and gave practically nothing i return.. HES A JERK YO!
ReplyDeletejuan morales >.<
Zinn's perspective about Christopher Columbus was that he was a murder and not a hero like some people want to believe he was cruel and that he committed genocide against the Indians.
ReplyDeleteIt's different from other perspective because I have heard his heroism when is not true.
Rosa Gomez
Christopher Cloumbus was a murder was killing people for no reason but he was not a hero he was bad nobody liked him....but he was killing the indians a lot.....
ReplyDeleteBianca Rodriguez
its different because it shows how colombus was a bad person as well it shows true history and both sides of the story. Also it we all kno he discovered america and now we extra
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Michael Rivera
Christopher Cloumbus was killing people because he didn't like no one.It's different from other perspective because I have heard his heroism when is not true.
ReplyDeleteshaq
Christopher Columbus is portrayed as a "hero", who discovered America. But after reading Zinn's account about Columbus it is clear that he is not a hero. He actually sailed in expectation of finding Asia, but ended up in Hispaniola. Zinn explains how Columbus and other assisting him used the native people for finding gold and also making them slaves .
ReplyDeleteRaish bartaula..
Christopher Columbus is portrayed as a "hero", who discovered America. But after reading Zinn's account about Columbus it is clear that he is not a hero. He actually sailed in expectation of finding Asia, but ended up in Hispaniola. Zinn explains how Columbus and other assisting him used the native people for finding gold and also making them slaves .
ReplyDeleteThey used their power, created fear to make the native people do what they wanted them to do
Columbus and his people murdered people, They created so much fear in people and the natives started using poison to kill themselves and family members to be safe from spainards.
Raish bartaula
zinn opinion said that Christopher columbus was wrong and had attack people.
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