Assess his voyages and decide if he is rightly to blame for the spread of disease, or if modern historians are being overly cruel in their assessments.
Chrtistopher Columbus was an italian explorer and navigator. Christopher Columbus made four trips across the Atlantic Ocean from Spain in the Santa Maria he was hoping to find a new route to India. Christopher Columbus first went to sea as a teenager. His first voyage almost cost him his life when he was attacked by French privateers off the coast of Portugal. His ship was burned and Christopher Columbus had to swim to the Portuguese shore. After participating in several other expeditions to Africa, Christopher Columbus gained knowledge of the Atlantic currents flowing east and west from the Canary Islands.
Christopher Columbus sailed for 36 days Westward. Columbus and his crew found an island in the Bahamas and thought it was Spain. The Santa Maria was wrecked on a reef off the coast of Hispaniola. With the help of some islanders, Columbus' men salvaged what they could and built the settlement Villa de la Navidad with lumber from the ship. Christopher Columbus was convinced that he had reached Asia. So he set sail for home with only two remaining ships. Christopher Columbus took to the seas on his second expedition and explored more islands in the Caribbean Ocean. He arrived at Hispaniola, Christopher Columbus and his crew discovered the Navidad settlement had been destroyed with all the sailors massacred. Christopher Columbus forced labor policy that the Native population to rebuild the Navidad settlement and explore for gold. Before leaving Hispaniola and returning to Spain Christopher Columbus left his brothers the govern the settlement of Hispaniola. On Christopher Columbus third voyage he actually reached the mainaland exploring Orinoco River in Venezuela. The Hispaniola settlement had deteriorated to the point of rebellion with settlers claiming they had been lied to by Columbus' claims of riches and complaining about the poor management of his brothers. The Spanish Crown sent a royal official who arrested Columbus and stripped him of his authority. He returned to Spain in chains to face the Royal Court. The consequences of the interactions between the Old World and New World that began with Christopher Columbus' journey to the Americas, several new diseases were introduced to the Native American population including epidemic waves of Smallpox Measles Influenza Bubonic Plague Diphtheria Typhus Cholera Scarlet Fever Chicken Pox Yellow fever. Malaria Lyme disease Q-fever (bacterial disease carried by …show more content…
Native Americans and European settlers were not immune to these diseases. So that made them unprepared to fight the diseases. Most of these diseases brought to America were highly contagious. The smallpox was the deadliest. More Native Americans died from small pox than the deaths by the black death. Smallpox killed tens of thousands of Indians in the New World. Nearly all of the European diseases were communicable by air and touch, thus making it easy for the disease to spread rapidly.
There are debates on whether or not Columbus brought Syphilis to Europe. Syphilis was one of the first global diseases. Researchers in Bosnia report that an ancient skeleton of a young Croatia-area man shows signs of the disease. The Researchers found out that syphilis was clearly a new world product. Syphilis had a devastating effect in Europe as it spread rapidly shortly after the Columbus
Chrtistopher Columbus was an italian explorer and navigator. Christopher Columbus made four trips across the Atlantic Ocean from Spain in the Santa Maria he was hoping to find a new route to India. Christopher Columbus first went to sea as a teenager. His first voyage almost cost him his life when he was attacked by French privateers off the coast of Portugal. His ship was burned and Christopher Columbus had to swim to the Portuguese shore. After participating in several other expeditions to Africa, Christopher Columbus gained knowledge of the Atlantic currents flowing east and west from the Canary Islands.
Christopher Columbus sailed for 36 days Westward. Columbus and his crew found an island in the Bahamas and thought it was Spain. The Santa Maria was wrecked on a reef off the coast of Hispaniola. With the help of some islanders, Columbus' men salvaged what they could and built the settlement Villa de la Navidad with lumber from the ship. Christopher Columbus was convinced that he had reached Asia. So he set sail for home with only two remaining ships. Christopher Columbus took to the seas on his second expedition and explored more islands in the Caribbean Ocean. He arrived at Hispaniola, Christopher Columbus and his crew discovered the Navidad settlement had been destroyed with all the sailors massacred. Christopher Columbus forced labor policy that the Native population to rebuild the Navidad settlement and explore for gold. Before leaving Hispaniola and returning to Spain Christopher Columbus left his brothers the govern the settlement of Hispaniola. On Christopher Columbus third voyage he actually reached the mainaland exploring Orinoco River in Venezuela. The Hispaniola settlement had deteriorated to the point of rebellion with settlers claiming they had been lied to by Columbus' claims of riches and complaining about the poor management of his brothers. The Spanish Crown sent a royal official who arrested Columbus and stripped him of his authority. He returned to Spain in chains to face the Royal Court. The consequences of the interactions between the Old World and New World that began with Christopher Columbus' journey to the Americas, several new diseases were introduced to the Native American population including epidemic waves of Smallpox Measles Influenza Bubonic Plague Diphtheria Typhus Cholera Scarlet Fever Chicken Pox Yellow fever. Malaria Lyme disease Q-fever (bacterial disease carried by …show more content…
Native Americans and European settlers were not immune to these diseases. So that made them unprepared to fight the diseases. Most of these diseases brought to America were highly contagious. The smallpox was the deadliest. More Native Americans died from small pox than the deaths by the black death. Smallpox killed tens of thousands of Indians in the New World. Nearly all of the European diseases were communicable by air and touch, thus making it easy for the disease to spread rapidly.
There are debates on whether or not Columbus brought Syphilis to Europe. Syphilis was one of the first global diseases. Researchers in Bosnia report that an ancient skeleton of a young Croatia-area man shows signs of the disease. The Researchers found out that syphilis was clearly a new world product. Syphilis had a devastating effect in Europe as it spread rapidly shortly after the Columbus