Columbus &
The Arawaks
The Arawaks
The modern day countries are Dominican Republic and Haiti.
What is Hispaniola?
These people are targeted during war, even though they are not soldiers.
What is a civilian?
This country agreed to finance Columbus’ expedition.
What is Spain?
“Hispaniola is a miracle. Mountains and hills, plains and pastures, are both fertile and beautiful... There are many spices, and great mines of gold and other metals…”
What is the report Columbus made to the royal Spanish court
The Arawaks produced food by doing this.
What is farming/agriculture?
Columbus was supposed receive this percentage for his work on behalf of Spain.
How much is 10%?
The Arawaks lived in communities that were based on this principle.
What is communal/collective/cooperative/sharing?
The Arawaks cut themselves on Spanish swords because they did not have this metal.
What is iron?
On the second voyage to Hispaniola, Columbus promised to bring back these.
What are slaves and gold?
Besides gold and spices, the King and Queen wanted Columbus to spread this among the people he met.
What is Christianity?
Columbus originally set out to find a shorter route to this continent.
What is India/Asia/The Indies?
While people at the time knew the Earth was round, they were unaware of this.
What is North and /or South America.
We can assume that the Arawaks felt this way about Columbus’ treatment of them.
Why will you take by force what you may have quietly by love?
The governor of the Jamestown colony did this when the Native chief refused to send the colonists they helped back to Jamestown.
What is destroying an Indian settlement/kidnapping or stabbing the Queen/killing her children?
Columbus began this wide scale practice that would generate wealth for Europe for centuries.
What is slavery?
The Pilgrims did not know how to navigate the brutal North American winters, and relied on the Native Americans for these.
What is food and shelter?
Columbus started this compete destruction of the Arawak people.
What is genocide?
Europe went on to claim different parts of the Americas as their own, without the consent of the indigenous people.
What is colonization?
Native labor (and later African labor) was the key to enriching European nations.
What is exploitation?