When Christopher Columbus sailed to the Americas in 1492 he did discover a land that was very fertile, but he also horribly mistreated the indigenous people living there and took advantage of them because he introduced the spaniards to the Americas, and the spaniards ended up killing over 12 million natives including men, women, and children for no apparent reason. Colombus also traded valuable goods with the Natives for things that were worth nothing. According to Document C, written by the Spanish Dominican friar Bartolomé de las Casas, “...the colonists have devastated the land as well as the people. In 40 years, at least 12 million men, women and children have been killed for no reason...” This shows that in the time that the spanish
