European Domination and Exploration
As the Spanish conquistadors as well as other Spanish explorers came upon new lands in the New World, they came into contact with different Indian tribes and gradually exterminated them through force, conquest and diseases to which the Indians are not immune. In 1492 when Columbus and this crew arrived in Cuba, thinking it was Asia, first traded with the Arawak Indians then took them as prisoners. The second time, he arrived with more ships and went from Island to Island in the Caribbean wanting more slaves and gold. Using crude methods, he made the Indians find him gold. When they tried to run, he and his crew found them and killed them. When they tried to fight, many more died because Spaniards had better weapons and horses. In two years, half of the 250,000 Indian populations in Haiti died through suicide, murder, hard work, and injury. In the year 1650, none of the original Arawaks were left on the island (A People's History of the United......

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Title: European Expansion In America
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