Columbus finds America |History of America Part 2 |

 

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History of America Part 2 |Columbus finds America |

When Columbus' ships landed on the shores of the New World, the Native Americans felt as if something new had come down from heaven to earth. He would sometimes look at such large ships in amazement and sometimes he would see people with colorful legs like him with two legs and two arms. It was all very new to them. They boarded their planes innocently.

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He fell in love with Columbus's staff and shared everything. It took them a long time to realize that Columbus and his companions, who looked like them, were enemies of their freedom and lives. How did Columbus deal with the New World and its innocent people? Why did Columbus find all Marcopolo's stories to be false? I am Sadaqat Ali  and look at the history of America

In the third episode, we will show you all these scattered islands just before the continent of America, one of the islands that we call the West Indies today, San Salvador. This is the historic island where Columbus' ship landed on the morning of October 12, 1942.

 

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San Salvador is a small island 21 km long and 8 km wide. Native Americans called the island Guanahani. It was named after Aguana, a lizard-like animal that is now extinct on the island. The island was densely forested, with salty lakes and small hills. Today, the island is part of the Bahamas and remains largely uninhabited. So in 1492, when Columbus' ships were approaching the shore, the people on the island saw them from afar and passed the news on to their own people. The arrival of these strange visitors caused a stir on the island. The people of the island began to gather to watch the ships. Some of them jumped into the sea and even boarded a few ships. There was innocent happiness on their faces like children. They were reacting as if someone had come down from heaven to earth. Because there was no idea of ​​wearing such big ships and such colorful clothes in the land they knew. The people of the island were accustomed to living in the usual huts of hay and wore only nominal clothes. They grew corn and ate it. So the sight of Columbus' ships was nothing short of a spectacle for them. When Columbus arrived on the island in a boat, the people there welcomed him. However, after spending some time on land, Columbus sailed back to sea on his ship, which was anchored some distance from the shore. A few days later, Columbus and his companions disembarked from their ships and sailed along the island's shore, heading north. By this time, people from all over the island were aware of the arrival of strangers. The locals were standing by the beach to greet them, bringing them food and drink. They were even offering them beautiful parrots of different colors on the island, parrots.

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In response, Columbus and his companions gave them red hats and some bells. Native Americans watched the bell in amazement and were happy to ring it and hear its sound. The atmosphere on the island was very friendly and the people were walking to Columbus. It was a beautiful sight. But Columbus had that in mind There was something else in sight. He saw that the people of the island were so simple that they had no clothes to wear, no palaces or magnificent places of worship on the island, but some of them wore earrings on their noses that looked like pure gold. Used to give Columbus began to realize that he had reached the island of Sepango, Japan, which Marco Polo had described. Marcopolo wrote that there was a small group of islands near Sepango and that Columbus had read the travelogue. Like the rest of the European youth of the time, but on the basis of this travelogue, he embarked on a mission to explore this western route to Japan and China, so Columbus spent very little time here and planned to move on because he He wanted to find and reach Sepango, Japan, as soon as possible. But before he left for Sepango, he did something else. He tried to get as much gold as possible from the locals. And it was very easy to get gold from these people. Because Columbus wrote in his diary that all the people he saw on this island, San Salvador and the surrounding islands, were all naked, without clothes, with no iron or steel or any other weapon. These people knew how to use such weapons to kill a human being.

Columbus also writes that these people could be crushed with the help of only fifty men and persuaded to do whatever they wanted.

These people were so innocent and generous about their property and position that no one could believe it without seeing it. If such people could exist in the world, they would give you whatever you asked from them, they would never say no. So friends, unfamiliar with this conflict, devoid of the current notion of ownership, the clever Columbus and his crew were helpless. Columbus and his companions took advantage of their simplicity and entered their homes in search of gold. They would turn things over in their homes and look for gold. Native Americans were watching the devastation of their homes but still did not understand what they wanted. On the contrary, they were constantly saying welcome to him. When, after a few days of brainstorming, Columbus became convinced that there was no gold but a few earrings, he decided to go further to Sepango, Japan. He captured some people from the island and forcibly imprisoned them on his ship. Columbus' goal was to teach them a little bit of his own language and take them as guides. And with their help, behind these small islands, as Marcopolo wrote, to reach Sepango and China. Sepango and China were no longer there. Columbus's guides had never heard of Sepango and China. He understood so much from Columbus that he was talking about a very large island, and these guides knew the address of a large island anyway. So they brought Columbus to a large island nearby. This is where Cuba is today. All the way, Columbus thought he was just about to reach Japan and Sepango. But when he arrived in Cuba on October 28, there was no gold. He began to realize that perhaps he had reached Cathay, China. Now he was looking for a wonderful Chinese city in Cuba. The stories of which he had read in Marcopolo's travelogue, but soon proved that this area is not even China, that is, China has not yet come to his mind. Now it was neither China, nor Japan, nor gold palaces here. People just had gold earrings in their noses and ears. Columbus was puzzled to see all this, or God, what is the matter? Did Marcopolo lie in his travelogues that there was only gold here? Frustrated and disappointed, Columbus set out on December 5 to search for a famous Chinese city known in Europe as Olive, now called Quanzhou. As Columbus's ships sailed along the coast of Cuba, the wind began to blow in the opposite direction, taking them to another island about 100 kilometers from Cuba. ۔ The island was called Iti by its inhabitants. On December 6, Columbus arrived on the island. He named the island Hispaniola, which is still known today. After Columbus' landing on Hispaniola, the horrific story of the destruction of the Native Americans began, which some historians and historians today call the American Holocaust. That is, the genocide of Native Americans. My Curios Fellows is the second largest island in the West Indies, Hispaniola. Today, the island is home to the Dominican Republic and Haiti. Today, the island is home to the Dominican Republic and Haiti. But when Columbus arrived here, the island was not divided into countries, and the Arawak people lived here, and their number had reached eight million. They received Columbus as well as the rest of the island. Seeing this island, Columbus thought he had either reached Sepango or an island where there was a large amount of gold. Interestingly, because of his religious background, he also began to understand this. Hispaniola may have had something to do with the area from which, according to the Bible, Solomon's fleet brought gold, diamonds, jewelry, and spices. Or he may think that this area is part of the kingdom which is called Sheba or Saba in the Bible and where the throne of the queen was claimed by Solomon.

 

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Now friends, Solomon's kingdom was in Palestine and where is Palestine and where is Hispaniola? How did the idea of ​​the kingdom of Saba come to him?

The only thing that can be said about this is that Columbus believed that no alien world exists outside of biblical stories. So now, based on biblical stories, Columbus thought that, whether or not, Hispaniola must be rich in gold. The reason for this belief was that Columbus and his companions saw tiny shining particles of gold in the rivers of Hispaniola. To make matters worse, a chief at Hispaniola also presented Columbus with a gold mask. Now Columbus's patience ran out. He began to realize that the locals knew about gold but were not telling him. Although there was not much gold on the island, it was only a little hidden in the sands of the rivers and streams. Interestingly, today's Hispaniola is an island rich in minerals. Gold, silver and copper reserves in the northeastern mountains of Haiti, the country of Hispaniola alone, are estimated at ارب 20billion to بل 20 billion. But obviously Columbus knew this at the time, and neither Native Americans knew anything about it. They did not have the modern tools to find minerals like today. So it was impossible to find a large quantity of gold there. However, Columbus decided that he would return to Spain and bring in more troops, and would search the island secretly for gold. Friends, by this time Columbus's crew had also started some clashes with the locals. At one point, Columbus's comrades killed two locals. Their only fault was that they were not ready to provide the Europeans with the arrows and bows they needed. But these were sporadic incidents, and they had not yet had a major confrontation with the Native Americans. Columbus had marked Hespaniula in his mind as the island where he thought gold must be. Therefore, he considered it necessary to set up a base here before returning to Spain, where his companions would be present and in his absence would continue to search for gold. Found the base in his plane. Because his ship Santa Maria sank off the coast of Haiti. So Columbus's comrades smashed the ship, removed its planks, and gathered more wood from the vicinity to build a small fort called Fort Naveedad. Here Columbus posted thirty-nine of his colleagues. Columbus gave them strict instructions to find gold and returned to Spain on January 16, 1943. On his return journey, Columbus forcibly enslaved some Native Americans.

They were placed in a very bad condition on the ship, which caused many slave American Americans to die of shivering on the way.

With the exception of slaves and some spices, he must have taken so much gold from Hispaniola that people in Spain would not make fun of his opponents and see that he brought the gold as promised anyway. Arriving in Spain, Columbus announced that he had discovered a new route to Asia and that there was plenty of gold there. The Spanish rulers accepted Columbus' claims.

He was also given the title of Admiral of the Sea, which the Spanish rulers promised to give him if he discovered the western route to Asia. Columbus was now part of the Spanish elite. Columbus's feasts and feasts began to take place everywhere. But he was also ridiculed at these parties.

why?

Columbus, known as the New World Exploration Joe Explorer, killed eight million locals on an island alone?

Why?

How did the natives of the New World compete with dangerous weapons from a small herb to a fruit?

What was the case against Columbus and how did his last day go?

 

We'll show you all in the next episode of History of America.

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