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Collision of Two Worlds
Christopher Columbus, Hernan Cortes and Bernal Diaz all wrote very positive and glowing reports about the New World, which seem to have been in conflict with some of the harsh realities that they certainly encountered when they came to the New World. However, the fact that their glowing reports omitted some of the harsher aspects of their "discoveries" does not imply that any of these men were being dishonest. On the contrary, what it does do is highlight the role that these men played in their respective positions. They were not explorers, though they have come to be known as explorers to modern people. Instead, these men were each tasked to complete very specific tasks for the governments for whom they worked. Columbus was given the task of finding an overseas trade route...
Cortes went to discover the wealth of the Aztec empire. Diaz was a soldier who was sent with Cortes to help secure wealth and protect the conquistador from any hostile people that he may have encountered. The positive attributes of their observations about the New World are all directly linked to the role that each of the men played for the governments.
Columbus was sent to find a route to the East, and, in that regard, he failed miserably. However, the purpose of finding a route to the East was to make trade between Europe and the East easier. When Columbus encountered the New World, he discovered not only a land with vast riches, but also a land that was untapped as a trading partner. Unlike the competition that his government would face in established trading places…
As a result, the majority of European business companies that handled the large number of fur trades were English. The largest of such firms was the Hudson's Bay Company established in 1670 (Belden, 82). This institution was the center of North American fur trading for more than two hundred years. It was founded by two French fur traders English merchant. The English government granted the company sole trading rights
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