To the Europeans, Christopher Columber was a hero, but to Indians, Columbus was a villain. Random House Unabridged Dictionary defines villain as "a cruelly malicious person who is involved in or devoted to wickedness or crime. What Columbus did for Europe was great but what he did to do it was terrible and diceitful. When Columbus arrived on the island, he traded unfairly with the Indians and took many into slavery to take back home since he wasn't able to bring back gold. When he came back, he reported that there were mass amounts of gold but there were actually scarce amounts in rivers. The king in Europe soon grew very interested in gold in the New World and Columbus made three more voyages back to the New World. He became much more aggressive with the Indians and even killed many of them. Him and his Spaniards had taken many Arawaks into slavery and made them work in plantations and mine gold. These are not the acts of a hero, these are undoubtly the acts of a villain. To the Indians, Columbus seemes like a terrorist taking their land and killing their people. Columbus must have seemed very scary to the Indians since he had brought weapons and had killed Indians. He brought fear, not hope, to a whole continent of people.
