Thursday, February 21, 2019
Vespucci, Columbus, and the New World
Before Columbus passed through the coastline of larger the States, Amerigo Vespucci, whom the name America has derived, first came in. He navigated, explored, observed, made a map according to what he perceived, and made an exploration report to his King about it. In his description, we john notice a typical European character on the fashion he view people, environment and things. He wrote his observation on a negative perspective such as the Native Americans has no dress, no sense of ownership, no existing law, no religion, no morals, no ethics, and fundamentally no culture.In this statement, it gave a connotation that those native inhabitants were complete bare beings, which on the dot the same description of people at the back of his head as he wanted to conquer the land believing that it was his new form reality for the Europeans. As we analyze Amerigos text, we can understand how he wanted to introduce those natives to his monarch as insignificant people. Perhaps, his inten tion was to light full support from their King and Queen as they planned to entirely renew their discovered land and afterwards conquer to advance them own.Christopher Columbus, 1530 strange Amerigos negative introduction about the Native Americans, Columbus has a more affirmative remark on their personalities. He said that these autochthonic people of America were peaceful, calm, friendly, warm, handsome and of well-built body structure. However, the presence of negativity has in any case transcended in his text when he described their lifestyle as having no knowledge and totally ignorance about arms made of irons as the natives spears were only made of woods and cane.Another unpleasant testimonial was when he utter that these natives are vulnerable and melodic themel to become slaves, and that with only few of Europeans could make these people defeated. We can view that those positive and negative remarks of Columbus was urged by the same intention with Amerigo, which is t o persuade the monarchs and allow them conquer the land to be the new colony of Europeans especially Portuguese. The New WorldBoth the Portugueses monarchs and the American natives were properly introduced by the so-called New World. Both Columbus and Vespucci has schematic and proposed this thought to them. To Vespucci, he thought that he discovered a world with nothing to have at all. He didnt recognize or perhaps, he intentionally did not want to recognize the existing average and culture of the natives because he wanted to make a change by himself and made a suggestion have the European culture on the land as a replacement on the existing norm.His idea was that Europeans like them are advanced and superior in all aspects, which performer that they are the only ones capable of transforming the land and society into a overmuch more highly regarded culture. To Columbus, he indicated that a New World has to be set by offering material things to the natives in exchange of their fr eedom, attitude and service being servants. However, his intention was not to upgrade the culture of the natives however to totally eliminate their culture for the betterment of the Europeans.
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