Howard Zinn chapter 1

How is Columbus traditionally viewed?

• Like a Goat

• like a failure

• like a hero

• terrible sailor

How does Howard Zinn view Columbus?

• Hero

• best buds

• terrible sailor and mass murderer

• a saint

Who was Bartolome De Las Casas

• French clergy man

• A priest who documented the beauty of Columbus' voyages

• A priest who told the truth about the atrocities committed by Columbus

• Columbus' compadre

What happened to the Arawak Indians?

• They became extinct because they didn't have enough to eat

• They were exterminated by the Spaniards and disease

• They lived happily every after

• They became a part of the Iroquis nation

Dr. Samuel Morrison of Harvard portrays Columbus as a...

• Murderer

• Great Warrior

• Peace maker

• Great Sailor

“He had his faults and his defects, but they were largely the defects of the qualities that made him great-…But there was no flaw, no dark side to the most to the most outstanding and essential of all his qualities-his seamanship

• Bartolome De Las Casas

• Cortez

• Pizarro

• Samuel Morrison

” there were 60,000 people living on this Island, including the Indians; so that from 1494 to 1508, over three million people had perished from war, slavery and the mines. Who in future generations will believe this? I myself writing it as a knowledgeable eyewitness can hardly believe it…”

• Howard Zinn

• Bartolome De Las Casas

• Samuel Morrison

• Powhatan

What statement goes best with this quote: “ In return for bringing back gold and spices, they promised Columbus 10 percent of the profits, governorship over new – found lands, and the fame that would go with a new title: Admiral of the Ocean Sea. “

• Wealth, power and glory

• Christianize, Bless, Save

• Marry, honor and respect

• God, money and honor

“march of death from town to town, using deception, turning Aztec against Aztec, killing with the kind of deliberateness that accompanies a strategy- to paralyze the will of the population by a sudden frightful deed.”

• Columbus

• English Colonists

• Pizarron and Courteous

• Cortez and Pizarro

What phrase best describe the war between the Powhatan and the English

settlers

• starving, running and laughing

• Pride, ambition and hunger

• starving time, runaway time, pride time, kidnap time and murder time.

• some people don't know how to farm