“Analyze the extent to which early European colonists viewed the Native Americans as
inferior people who could be exploited for the colonists' benefit.”
The early European colonizers of the Americas came to the New World to find
sources of wealth for themselves and their country. They were greeted by Native Peoples who
were later used as forced laborers to the benefit of the colonists. Most European colonizers
behaved with arrogance and cruelty wherever superior power enabled them to rule over and
exploit the area's Native People. To justify their behavior towards the Natives, the Europeans
emphasized the Natives' weaknesses and “barbaric” ways, as well as viewing them as pagans
and unworthy of free will and rights. Christopher Columbus is a fine example, and one of
the first perpetrators, of this attitude.
After landing in the Caribbean islands, Christopher Columbus treated the islands and
the Taino natives as things to be used for Spanish benefit. He......

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Title: European&Nativeamericanrelations
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