... depicted Columbus as a hero when in reality, his attitudes led to the genocide of a population. Zinn presents the major historical facts of the first 250 years of American history starting from when Christopher Columbus's Niña, Pinta, and Santa Maria landed in the Bahamas on October 12, 1492. It was there that Europeans and Native Americans first came into contact; the Arawak natives came ... out to greet the whites, and the whites were only interested in finding the gold. From the Bahamas, Columbus sailed to Cuba and Hispañola, the present-day home of Haiti and the Dominican Republic...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate