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  3. chris daren Columbus reached the Caribbean. That's right and it's a part of North America but he didn't know that. He thought that he'd reached some islands off the coast of eastern Asia or India. He thought that because he knew that the earth was round. What he didn't know was that North and South America lay between Europe and Asia if you sailed west. No one did. There was a lucrative spice trade with India and the other eastern Asian areas in 14th and 15th century. This was monopolised by the Arabs in the middle east, so the Portuguese tried to find a route around Africa so they could go directly to eastern Asia and cut out the middle man in the middle east. Columbus thought there might be a better way if a person sailed west, not realising that the Americas were in the way. That's because no one knew that, otherwise it would have been a good way. He wasn't after gold at all. He only went after it when he was some of the natives in the Caribbean with some gold. He was after the Asian spice trade. Pizarro was the first European to reach Peru, where the Incas had all the gold and silver. He conquered Peru in 1530, 16 years after Columbus died. So how could Columbus have depleted all the gold in a decade if it took 30 years for Pizarro to reach Peru after Columbus first reached the Caribbean. In fact, Peru is 6th in gold production today. The United States is 4th and Canada is 5th. As for silver, Mexico is STILL the number one producing country, with Peru 3rd and Bolivia 6th. That doesn't sound like a depleted gold and silver resources to me. You're not very well informed on the subject at all. You're entire post is based on a dislike for white people and is nothing more that a personal bias. A simple google search could have gotten all this information, but it would appear that you like your version better because it backs up your own personal prejudices. Before you make these comments a little fact checking might help you a lot because you come off as a 12 year old and it does you no credit.
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