
Columbus -- The Tragedy and the Enigma
Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong
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Columbus's Landings in Ame Ia Certainly Did Not Lead to Mass Death
Columbus's landings in ame ia certainly did lead to mass death. The population of hispaniola, the main island t that columbus colonized, was almost wiped out within a few decades. Similar a mass death happened all over the caribbean there are some islands, like barbadoes that we know had indigenous inhabitants before the spanish showed and as far as we know, they all died. So we see complete wipe out of some peoples and nations in the caribean after this sp Spanish arrival. However, violence was not the main reason. It was disease, repeated disease outbreaks, that wiped out most of the population of the west indies and
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