Indians Vs Columbus Chapter 1 Summary

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As one reads the primary sources they realize that the Information they are given is rather descriptive in comparison to the Textbook. I for one think that primary sources are more superior when wanting to describe in depth a certain event in the eyes of the person who wrote the descriptive piece of information whereas the textbook relies more on factual information rather than descriptive information. In chapter 2 of the textbook the chapter makes mention to the start of exploration by the spanish and portuguese now in this chapter it is mentioned that the indians and explorers had made contact but the details about this contact are brief and not descriptive rather the chapter describes more the goals and the reasons of these early explorations. …show more content…

It is only afterwards when they were forced to leave their homes, and killed were they not so fond and welcoming of these explorers, however we must make note that columbus and his men were regarded as gods according to the native americans they believed that these explorers had come down from the heavens, this is explained by Columbus throughout the second primary source so it perhaps why the Native americans treated these explorers so kindly, however one has to agree that the Native Americans were in fact people of good heart by default therefore I believe that whether these Native Americans had looked Columbus and his mens as outsiders rather than gods they would still show utmost respect for them

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