Blog Post 6

Possible issues that could occur when trying to teach the conquests of the New World from a school textbook versus the diario of Christopher Columbus or the accounts from the aztecs and cortes' journal, each show very different sides as to what happened. There is no real way to determine which account is most accurate, which leaves it to the reader to infer. The diary of Columbus and and Cortes show that the explorers just explored and did not harm any of the indigenous people; however, the accounts from the natives tell a very violent tale in which they welcomed the Europeans with open arms and gifts, but were returned with the slaughtering of their people. The best bet might be to take bits from each account in determining the truth of what happened between the natives and the settlers, since they could all have been biased.