Plundering the Indians: food, ** and beautiful women
Since the Age of Discovery, the European colonizers' quest for Indian women has been unusually strong. This phenomenon seems to have been present since the discovery of the New World by Columbus, most notably by the Spanish explorers, who reached a frenzied quest for Indian women.
After Columbus's first expedition to the west, he was about to return to Spain when an expedition ship ran aground and sank, and he established friendly relations with the Indians on the island of Hispaniola and successfully formed an alliance.
In order to house the supplies salvaged from the sunken ships, they established colonies close to the coast. However, the Spanish quest for Indian women provoked a revolt against the Indians, a situation that had already existed when Columbus "discovered" the Indians.
The first colony that the Spaniards opened up in the Americas was Hispaniola, where they arranged for dozens of explorers to be stationed and guarded. In order to achieve self-sufficiency, Columbus specially instructed them to establish good relations with the Indians, grow crops, and leave many small European commodities to exchange for **, food and other items.
It seems that they did a foolish job of establishing the colony, but when Columbus returned to the area, he found that his colony had been burned to the ground, and the Spanish explorers stationed there had disappeared without a trace.
After a careful search, Columbus found only a few highly decomposed white corpses. Clearly, his explorers had met with misfortune in the colony. After questioning a local Indian ally, an Indian chieftain, Columbus learned that he had "done" all of this.
After Columbus left, the Spanish explorers turned colonists and began to let themselves go. They quarreled with each other and fought over interests, and although they were divided into several factions, they did not have any interest in colonizing the local area.
As for growing food crops for self-sufficiency, they don't even think about it at all, but stay as far away from farmland as possible. These Spanish colonists only knew how to do some small business with the Indians, using some gadgets on the bad streets of Europe (such as red hats, glass beads, copper bells, knives, fish hooks, etc.) to exchange ** jewelry and food with the Indians.
This made them a lot of money, but as time went on, the gadgets in their hands gradually diminished. In order to get more ** and food, they directly turned into robbers and became vicious robbers.
Do you know? Before Columbus's expeditionary fleet discovered America, it had prepared many knick-knacks such as red hats, glass beads, brass bells, knives, and fish hooks.
This is because they learned a valuable lesson from the Portuguese, which is that the black people of Africa have an extreme love for these small European goods. Therefore, Columbus expected that Chinese, Japanese or Indians might also like these gadgets, so he brought a lot of these things.
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The Spanish colonists suppressed the local Indians by force, and their steel** and firearms were too powerful for the Indians to resist. With each robbery, they were able to return with a full load, including ** and food.
However, as time went on, their robberies became more frequent. During this time, they not only robbed the ** and food, but also began to plunder the Indian women directly to meet their personal needs.
In this case, the Indians were forced to live in pain and fear.
The Spanish colonists ignored the identity and marital status of Indian women, and whenever they found a beautiful Indian woman, they would directly snatch it for their own pleasure.
They even controlled three or four Indian beauties as slaves and lived a "happy" life that was unimaginable in Europe. Such behavior is extremely immoral and shameful.
The Indians could not bear it anymore and decided to rebel against the atrocities of the Spaniards. Led by a brave Indian chieftain, they launched a night raid. Under the cover of night, they managed to raid the Spaniards, killing several Spaniards who remained in the fortress.
Encouraged by the chieftain, the other Indian chiefs on Hispaniola, who had been oppressed by the Spaniards, stepped forward and organized a counterattack against the Spaniards who were acting recklessly on the island.
Eventually, they succeeded in eliminating dozens of Spanish colonists on the island.
Conclusion: It is undeniable that in the long history of mankind, there is an eternal truth that has always run throughout, that is, "natural selection, survival of the fittest". Like the Indians I mentioned earlier, they failed to keep up with the times and fell prey to those greedy European colonizers.
Although they had achieved a brief victory by virtue of their numerical superiority and surprise attack, when Columbus came to Hispanio again, he used only a small number of Spanish explorers armed with advanced ** and strong armor to easily conquer these Indian tribes who dared to resist, and brutally enslaved them.
This is the helpless crushing of the weak by the powerful force. Since then, other European explorers have followed Columbus's example and continued to oppress the Indians.