Columbus's Log of His First Encounter with the New World

question 9

Multiple Choice

Columbus's log of his first encounter with the New World and its inhabitants reveals which of the following?

• A) He wanted to profit from the land he had found by exploiting its natural resources, including its people.
• B) He wanted to exterminate all Native Americans and completely destroy the cultures they had built.
• C) He insisted that Europeans had come merely to observe, not to change, the cultures of the New World's native inhabitants.
• D) He believed that his primary goal should be to Christianize the native inhabitants of the land he had found.

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