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CHS 245 ol-FALL 2010-13237 Chapter one presentation By Lee, Sunglyung

In october 1492, columbus found america

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CHS 245 ol-FALL 2010-13237 Chapter one presentation By Lee, Sunglyung

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    1. CHS 245 ol-FALL 2010-13237 Chapter one presentation By Lee, Sunglyung

    2. In october 1492, columbus found america “His second expedition was given seventeen ships and twelve hundred men. The ain was clear: slaves and gold.” (p.4) Columbus and his crew killed indians who escaped or did not bring gold. “In two years, through murder, mutilation, or suicide, half of the 250,000 indians on haiti were dead.” (p.5)

    3. Bartolome de las casas is the Main chief source of information Regarding what happened on the Islands after columbus came. He wrote them on his book Called History of the indies Las casas said that women were treated well and they had no religion. (p.5) “There were 60,000 people living on this island…so that from 1494 to 1508. over three million people had perished from war, slavery, and the mines.” (p.7)

    4. “When we read the history books given to children at the United States, it all starts with heroic adventure-there is no blood shed-and Columbus day is a celebration (p.7) Zinn is stating that History today don’t omit anything but bury the unpleasing facts under the mass of other informations. (p.8-9) Zinn is going to see the history in the viewpoint of the victims; those who got conquered. (p.10-11)

    5. Zinn discusses conquest done to Aztecs, incas, and indians such as powhatans and pequots. When Hernando Cortez first came to aztec, he was believed as quetzalcoatl, aztec man-god Cortez deceived aztecs and killed them with Spaniard’s advanced technology.

    6. “In peru, that other spanish conquistador pizarro, used the same tactics, and for same reasons: for gold, for slaves…” (p.12)

    7. English claimed that “indians had not “subdued” the land, and therefore had only a “natural” to it, but not a “civil right.” A Natural right did not have legal standing.” (p.14) English and Pequot indians fought countless times and were in truce several times. “For a while, the english tried softer tactics. But ultimately, it was back to annihilation.” (p.16) English invasion was little different from spanish invasion because English had “Morally ambiguous drive; the need for space, for land, was a real humen need.” (p.16)

    8. Zinn ends the chapter with questions “was all this bloodshed and deceit a necessity for the human race to progress from savegery to civilization?” (p.17) Another question is being asked: “Beyond all that, how certain are we that what was destroyed was inferior?” (p.18) Zinn addresses that myths on conquest are “enough to make us question…the excuse of progress in the annihilation of races, and the telling of history from standpoint of the conquerors and leaders of western civilization.” (p.22)

    9. -References- All images found from google.  Zinn, Howard. A People's History of the United States: 1492-present. New York: HarperCollins, 1999. Print.

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