This is an analytical paper based on the book "The American Halocaust" that analyzes the brutality forced against the Indians.

Since one was in elementary school, Spanish teachers have been telling of what a great man Christopher Columbus was and of his "discovery" of America. What would one think of him if years from then one were to discover he was just as bad as Hitler if not worse? In 1492, a Holocaust began against the Natives of the Americas we know today. It was led by none other than Christopher Columbus. Now that the truth …

…to about a third of that by 1496, only to decrease in numbers from then on. Little did the natives know that a bit of courtesy would be the end of them. The Spaniards belief that God willed those massacres was nothing but an excuse to justify their sadistic pleasures of murder. So if Columbus was such a great man, and he exterminated thousands of people, should we regard criminal murderers as great men as well?