The Diario by Christopher Columbus was written during the new Modern Era. I grew up in Colombia, in where we were taught since we were kids that Christopher Columbus was like a hero because he “discovered” the Bahamas; the discovery and exploration of a part of Cuba, and the establishment of a Spanish settlement on the coast. But in reality he was nothing near to a hero because he used God’s name to justify his cruel act of taking the Indigenous people as slaves.
However, his Diario is a very important work, not only in literature but also in history because it led to division and categorization of population by cultural and economic life, as well as the classification of the flora and the fauna. After the “discovery” of the new world, Spanish language has evolved and today is the second language most spoken around the world.
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