I definitely changed my view of Christopher Columbus after reading only 11 pages in Howard Zinn's book "A people's history of the United States. The only thing Christopher Columbus cared about was gold. He was a bleak person, who didn't seem to have any compassion for others. From the beginning of his trip, which started on Canary Islands, he took an other sailor's reward for sighting land (the Bahamas). This also led Columbus to take some of the Arawak Indians (who lived on the Bahamas) aboard ship as prisoners and insisted them to guide him to the source of gold. If some of the prisoners wouldn't cooperate, he would just kill them, or let them die.
Howard Zinn tells America's history trough different kind of nations. He wants people to know that history can't just be told from one perspective, so simple because it has so many different perspectives, depending on who you ask. There is always many point of view in one history!
