Christopher Columbus is generals from his first voyage is 1492 - 1493

They are view of Christopher Columbus is being skewed into him being a conqueror of innocent people and raping and pillaging the New World. That could not be further from the truth listen to his own writing it is only counts as they haven’t brought his entire journey.

You will find that they never stole or plundered any item not even gold. They didn’t have to. They traded with the locals who didn’t know the value of gold. You were still astonished by the generosity and their innocence that he ordered his men to never take anything without compensation. He also made absolutely sure his med did not upset any of the natives bye fraternizing with the native women. If any of his crew were to violate these orders they were severely punished.

Even after he read his shit the ground one of the local kings an issue with another Knigge people who would often read it there settlements and kill their people. Columbus even offered the king protection from the peoples who often wondered their land before Columbus got there.

It’s not clear who those people are just reading through his journals. I suspect it may be the Mayans from the South America mainland. Just from the small description they had knowledge of weapons end of gold workings. The natives on the islands did not.