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population of one island, 200,000 when Columbus first came to it, was
only 50,000 20 years later, and by 1540 only a thousand people remained.
When the most famous of the Spanish conquistadors, Cortes, first set foot
in Mexico in February 1519, the total native population was 25 million,
but in 1605 this had fallen to 1 million. On the island of Hispaniola, the
population, which was 7-8 million in 1492, fell to 4 million in 1496, and to
just 125 people in 1570. According to historians' figures, in less than a cen-
tury after Columbus first set foot on the continent 95 million were mas-
sacred by the colonialists. When Columbus discovered America 30 mil-
lion natives were living on the continent. As a result of the massacres
between then and now they have come to the position of being a lost race
of less than 2 million.
The reason for these massacres reaching such pitiless proportions
was the indigenous peoples' not being seen as human beings, as being
looked on as animals.
But these claims of the colonialists did not win many supporters. In
Europe at that time, the truth that all people were created equal by God
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With Christopher Columbus' discovery
of America there began a dreadful mas-
sacre of the Native Americans.