Chapter 1: Columbus, Indians, and human progress answers I really don't think that Columbus was responsible for his men behaviors. To me it seemed that he only cared about finding gold new lands and himself. a. Some of the behaviors that his men did where not right they take women and slaves either for sex of labor. Columbus ended up not finding gold so they took fifth-teen hundred men, women, and children. On top of that they would put them in pens as if they were animals. A lot of men died on the voyage. They punished the Indians really harsh for not finding gold. Like getting their hands cut off and then letting them bleed to death. 2500,00 Indians died in Haiti because of the Spaniards after they realized there was no gold they once again enslaved them and getting rid or all the Arawak Indians.

b. Columbus could have stopped his men from having sex with the women the labor part wasn't so bad, but he could have stopped that. He shouldn't have took 15,000 Indians and sold them as slaves that is just not right. He could have stopped the harsh punishments that the Indians went through. Other then that he really couldn't do anything else because the rest of the happenings were his ideas for his rage of not fining gold like he promised Spain. 2.Columbus and Las Casas did not belong in the same communities. La casa was more on the side of the Indians he felt bad for them unlike Columbus that did not care one bit. What separates from the communities is that Casa liked Indians and