{"id":74466,"date":"2013-02-21T02:06:01","date_gmt":"2013-02-21T02:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=74466"},"modified":"2013-02-21T02:06:01","modified_gmt":"2013-02-21T02:06:01","slug":"columbus-the-indians-and-human-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/columbus-the-indians-and-human-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"Columbus, The Indians And Human Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arawak men and women, naked, tawny, and full of wonder, emerged from their villages onto the island&#8217;s beaches and swam out to get a closer look at the strange big boat. When Columbus and his sailors came ashore, carrying swords, speaking oddly, the Arawaks ran to greet them, brought them food, water, gifts. He later wrote of this in his log:<\/p>\n<p>They &#8230; brought us parrots and balls of cotton and spears and many other things, which they exchanged for the glass beads and hawks&#8217; bells. They willingly traded everything they owned&#8230; . They were well-built, with good bodies and handsome features&#8230;. They do not bear arms, and do not know them, for I showed them a sword, they took it by the edge and cut themselves out of ignorance. They have no iron. Their spears are made of cane&#8230; . They would make fine servants&#8230;. With fifty men we could subjugate them all and make them do whatever we want.<\/p>\n<p>Read more in <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.historyisaweapon.com\/defcon1\/zinncol1.html\">History Is A Weapon<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":74467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,3402],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-editors-choice"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Columbus, The Indians And Human Progress  - Colombo Telegraph<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/columbus-the-indians-and-human-progress\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Columbus, The Indians And Human Progress  - 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