How Does Columbus Compare
to some of
the most oppressive, criminal regimes in history?
Take our
quiz and find out.
A.
Eyewitness
accounts estimate over 5 million people were exterminated within
the first three years of his rule.
B.
His
followers participated in massacres in which they, �Grabbed
suckling infants by the feet and, ripping them from their mothers�
breasts, and dashed them headlong against the rocks.�
C.
On his first
day in the region, he said, �With fifty men I could subdue them
all.�
D.
During his
regime, children who had been executed
were used as dog food.
E.
Believed his
victims were �sub-human� and did not have souls.
F.
His soldiers
routinely laid wagers on whether they could manage to slice a man
in two at a stroke, or cut an individual�s head from his body, or
disembowel him with a single blow of their axes.
G.
Initiated
the Trans-Atlantic (sex)
Slave Trade.
H.
�They spared
no one, erecting especially wide gibbets on which they could
string their victims up with their feet just off the ground and
then burn[ed] them alive.�
I.
Implemented
a policy that included cutting off the hands of those who did not
bring his invading force enough gold.
J.
His soldiers
�Slaughtered everyone in their path, on occasion running through a
mother and her baby with a single thrust of their swords.�
