Bartlome de Las Cacas accused Columbus of Genocide

Map of Hispaniola

The Legacy of Columbus

Samuel Eliot Morison

"One only wishes that the Admiral might have been afforded the sense of fulfillment that would have come from foreseeing all that flowed from his discoveries; ..."

Bartolome de Las Casas

"Their other frighting weapon after the horses: twenty hunting greyhounds."





Suzan Shown Harjo

"Columbus Day, never on Native America's list of favorite holidays, became somewhat tolerable as its significance diminished to little more than a good shopping day."

(pictures are from [bottom right] www.ccmep.org/columbus.jpg
[middle left] news.bbc.co.uk [top right] www.trainweb.org)


Anonymus




Small Pox epidemic.


(Pictures [far right] www.pbs.org [center right] history.binghamton.edu)







The Columbian Exchange

"The culinary life we owe Columbus is a progressive dinner in which the whole human race takes part but no one need leave home to sample all the courses." -Raymond Sokolov

Foods that came way after Columbus discovered America.



Sugar Cane Hamburgers with Fries European Vegetables
(Africa) (America)


(pictures above: [top right]: wildwalk.originationinsite.com [top middle]: www.koalie.net [top right]: phuketdir.com



The Columbian Exchange

And to the new found shores, many more would come,

At the outset for treasure, and later for rum.

While those staying home in the Old World nations

Were thrilled, indeed, by these explorations.

Like a sudden sunburst, how their lives did change:

Dinner menus, for one, did it re-arrange.

As ships back to Europe were laden with goods:

Like tomatoes and corn, and potatoes and wood.

Of course, trading back then was still filled with danger,

With the seas deadly rought and pirates no stranger.

-- But one thing is certain: Spanish sailors were daring

In the Age of Exploring and of brave sea-faring.

And what a marvel it was, what a change of pace,

To hear of new peoples and discover new tastes.

Like pineapples and turkeys and the cocoanut frond,

Indeed, goodies galore did now cross “the pond.”

With peppers and spices and tortillas and beans

Soon filling the plates of hungry Europeans.

And while trying new foods and learning new ways

Is not always easy, it adds dash to one’s days.

While oranges, lemons and stalks of sugar cane,

All made their way west-ward from the ports of Spain.

Soon after came horses, came cattle and wine

To shape how the New World would travel and dine.

And The Columbian Exchange, as this became known,

Brought chocolate as well to those Old World homes.

-- It’s a wonder to think and a fright to ponder:

What folks did for a snack before chocolate came yonder?

(from www.nokomishistory.com)

Response to "A Slaves Journey"

The following paragraph has to do with the following statement:

Slaves were treated as products, not as people.


This statement is true because the slaves during the slave trade that happened from the 1450's to through the 1800's. The slaves were first captured, usually with some type of net, and then taken to a place where they would be processed. Then they would strip them naked and chain them up. After that they would load them up on a ship, where most of them would die of some type of illness. This is also where they would be whipped, thrown off the boat into shark infested water, or even shot. With knowing all of this, you would to agree that slaves were treated as products, not as people.

International Slavery Project (Slavery in the Caribbean)

Slavery in the Caribbean

Slavery in the Caribbean happened during the 17th and 18th centuries. During this time, many of the slaves were mistreated by their owners. Because of this many of them would fight back by doing things like refusing to work and to pretend to be ignorant so that they could avoid torture and so that they would not have to do as much work. The slave women would also refuse to have children. Some of the reasons why they would not have children is because they did not want to provide their masters with more slaves, to bring new life into their world of pain and suffering, and to rebel against their masters. The slave women were often the leaders of rebellions that happened, especially in Saint-Domingue, a French portion of the Caribbean, where the slaves were used to work the fields where the sugar cane grew.

(photo is from www.historical-museum.org)

(Information is from www.wikipedia.org and dl.lib.brown.edu)

History Response to Lit. (Book Report) on Once There Was a War

In "Once There Was a War" by John Stinbeck, the author, John Stinbeck tells us how WWII was like and shows us this through a journal entry format.
John Stinbeck uses the characters to explain the life of the soldiers during WWII. In this story the soldiers do a lot of other things besides fight the enemy. They did things like play board games, grow vegetables, and drink non-alcoholic beer (they drank this stuff in England).
The theme of this book does not really have a connection with me except for the part where he talks about how the English cook food. Other then that, I don't have any connection to the theme. The theme however, does have a connection with history. The historical connection is that it is about World War II and how the soldiers would live there lives when they were not fighting the enemy.

(Photo is from www.history.com)