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30. The Conquest Began With Christopher Columbus

A painting of Christopher Columbus. Sebastiano del Piombo / Metropolitan Museum of Art / Wikimedia Commons.

Christopher Columbus never did arrive in what we now recognize as Latin America; he found the West Indies – islands in the Caribbean that are in the vicinity of Florida, which now comprises countries like the Dominican Republic and Haiti. Columbus and his crew had the mentality of conquering the native peoples and devastating their societies.

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