ought that they would fall when they reached that end. If any other people said something different, he was seen as crazy. Contrary to what many people though, Christopher Colombus was one of the persons who thought that the Earth was round and he wanted to find an easier way to find India; however, he founded what it is know America, and he died believing that he had found India. After Colombus voyages, many other colonists followed his route to get to the New World. The Portuguese were the first Europeans who travelled to the New World and encouraged the other European countries to come to the New World, although Portugal wasn’t as powerful as England and Spain, it also influenced in some ways the New World. The word colonize is defined by __________ as _____________. This means that, in order to colonize, it has to exist a mother country and a colony; the mother country is the one that colonizes, governs and control the colony and the colony is the one who pays taxes. In the 16th century the only countries from Europe that had colonies in the New World were Spain and Portugal. Other countries like England and France were not sure if colonization in the New World would be worth and they also had problems with other European countries to preserve its territory. One reason that affected the success of the colonization in the New World was the treatment of the natives. In the case of the Spanish colonization, the natives worked for the colonists and were treated very bad, they also worked alone but couldn’t compete with the low prices of the powerful colonists. We can see the bad treatment that Spanish of the natives in the following: "The Spaniards took babies from their mothers' breasts, grabbing them by the feet and smashing their heads againt rocks. ... They built a long gibbet, low enough for the toes to touch the ground and prevent strangling, and hanged thirteen [natives] at a time in honor of Christ Our Saviour and th...
