A smart and religious European who claimed to have the fastest route across the Atlantic Ocean is Christopher Columbus. Columbus was so eager to voyage to the America's that he continuously pleaded King Fernindad and Queen Isabella to fund his voyage. He convinced them that he would bring back wealth and claim European land. He was not the first one to discover America, there were already other human beings inhabiting the land. Therefore, Columbus believed that it was right of him to take the indigenous people, make them European slaves, and take over their land. This man did not have a good reputation after brutally attacking those who have never harmed him.

Christopher Columbus

When Columbus was headed towards Cuba, he believed that there were no people inhabiting the land, though he was wrong, just like the fist time he came to America. There were already indigenous people invading the island for centuries. One tribe was the Tainos and the other was the Ciboney. Christopher Columbus too believed that he would be abel to find gold on the Cuban island. Although after he colonized, Bartolome de las casas estimated the population of Tainos in Cuba was 350,000 by the end of the 15th century. An ironic fact is that the governor of Cuba in 1510, Diego Columbus, was actually Christopher Columbus's son. Just like the first time he took advantage of the Tainos, he did it once again with the Tainos from Cuba, and once their numbers decreased, he brought in the Africans to Cuba to continue the plantation and the mine work.