Columbus died in what is now Spain in 1506, but he supposedly wanted to be buried on the island of Hispaniola, which is made ...
Columbus actively participated in some pretty gruesome crimes himself, in his pursuit of profit. On Hispaniola, Columbus served as the governor of Spain's new territory. The Spanish colonizers ens ...
Of the estimated 250,000 natives in Hispaniola, Columbus' first stop in the Americas in 1492, new infectious diseases wiped out a staggering 236,000 indigenous people by 1517 — nearly 95% of ...
Columbus died in the Spanish city of Valladolid in 1506. He had wished to be buried on Hispaniola, which is now divided into ...