2006-09-13 09:00:45 · 5 answers · asked by dominicanshorty94 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
Besides Diseases...
2006-09-13 09:31:33 · update #1
Columbus gave them diseases, in return, the natives rpovided him with the ability to hunt, cultivate lands for farming, and how to survive.
2006-09-13 09:10:05 · answer #1 · answered by krodgibami 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
"As I saw that they were very friendly to us, and perceived that they could be much more easily converted to our holy faith by gentle means than by force, I presented them with some red caps and strings of beads to wear upon the neck, and many other trifles of small value, where with they were much delighted and became greatly attached to us. Afterwards they came swimming to the boats, bringing parrots, balls of cotton thread, javelins, and many other things which they exchanged for glass
beads and hawks' bells, which trade was carried on with the utmost good will. But they seemed on the whole a very poor people. They all were completely naked. All whom I saw were young, not above thirty years ofage, well made and with fine shapes and faces; their hair short andcoarse like that of a horse's tail, combed towards the forehead except a small portion which they suffer to hang down behind and never cut. Some
paint themselves with black, others with white, others with red, others with such colors as they can find. Some paint the face, some the whole body. Others only the eyes, others only the nose. Weapons they have none; nor are they acquainted with them. For I showed them swords which they grasped by the blades and cut themselves through ignorance. They have no iron, their javelins being without it, and no thing more than
sticks with fishbones or other thing at the ends. I saw some men with scars of wounds upon their bodies and inquired by signs the cause of these. They answered me by signs that other people came from islands in the neighborhood and tried to make prisoners of them and they defended themselves. ....It appears to me that these people are ingenious and would make very good servants, and I am of the opinion that they would readily become Christians as they appear to have no religion. They very
quickly learn such words as are spoken to them. If it please our Lord, Iintend at my return to carry home six of them to your Highnesses thatthey may learn our language."
This is a quote from Christopher Columbus' writings.
2006-09-13 16:18:17 · answer #2 · answered by rltouhe 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Columbus and his crew gave the natives disease.
Some natives give Columbus a tip there was gold on an other island so they would leave.
2006-09-13 16:05:51 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
He gave us diseases, spanish, Christianity and some European ideas. We gave him, gold, actually he took our gold. We gave him xocolatum aka chocolate which means foamy water (back then chocolate was mixed with water not milk). Jewels, and most of all, the whole continent!!! Oh well, we also got our skin lightened cause they took our women too!!!
2006-09-13 16:10:46 · answer #4 · answered by snak3s2001 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
he gave them a beer and then they shot him!!!
2006-09-13 16:08:01 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋