Columbus, the Indians, and Human Progress

According to the excerpt from Christopher Columbus's log in Chapter 1, what did he believe could be achieved with fifty men?

What was the primary information that Columbus sought from the natives he encountered?

What was the system Columbus instituted on Haiti requiring natives fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months?

What was the penalty for an Indian on Haiti found without a copper token, which signified they had met their gold quota?

Who is the chief source of information cited by Zinn regarding the events on the islands after Columbus's arrival?

According to the account of Bartolomé de las Casas, what happened to the population of Hispaniola between 1494 and 1508?

What is Howard Zinn's criticism of the historian Samuel Eliot Morison's treatment of Columbus's atrocities?

In Chapter 1, what does Zinn state is his preferred viewpoint for telling the history of the discovery of America?

What was the first European military base in the Western Hemisphere, built by Columbus on Hispaniola?

In the great slave raid of 1495 described in Chapter 1, how many Arawak men, women, and children were initially rounded up?

How does Las Casas describe the treatment of women in Indian society, which startled the Spaniards?

According to Zinn, what pattern of conquest set by Columbus was repeated by Cortés, Pizarro, and the English settlers?

What was the 'natural' right to the land that Governor John Winthrop of Massachusetts Bay Colony attributed to the Indians, as opposed to a 'civil right'?

In the Pequot War, what tactic, according to Zinn, did the English use that was similar to Cortés and would be used again in the twentieth century?

What was the population of Wampanoag Indians on Martha's Vineyard when the English first settled in 1642, and what was it reduced to by 1764, despite there being no wars on the island?

Zinn challenges the idea of progress being a justification for atrocities. What question does he pose about making sacrifices for human progress?

According to Hans Koning, as quoted by Zinn, what was the long-term effect of the gold and silver from the Americas on the Spanish people?

What is Zinn's estimate for the total native population of the Americas around the time of Columbus's arrival?

Which civilization is NOT mentioned as part of the heritage from which the Aztec civilization of Mexico emerged?

What characteristic of Iroquois society is described as being 'conspicuously absent' compared to European society?

What was the reward promised to the sailor who first sighted land on Columbus's voyage, and who ultimately received it?

In Columbus's second expedition, what was the stated, clear aim, according to Zinn?

What reason does Las Casas give for the Arawak mothers drowning their babies from sheer desperation?

What was the official figure for the number of Pequots in Connecticut in 1972, according to a footnote in Virgil Vogel's book cited by Zinn?

According to Zinn's summary of Iroquois society, how was land owned and worked?

What was the population of Spain at the time of Columbus's voyage, and what percentage of the population were nobility who owned 95 percent of the land?

In his report to the Spanish Court, what did Columbus promise to bring back from his next voyage in return for a little help?

What was Hernando Cortés's 'one obsessive goal' when he came to Mexico, according to Zinn?

What happened to the sailors Columbus left behind at Fort Navidad on his first voyage?

How did the English settlers in Virginia respond when some of them ran off to join the Indians during the 'starving time' of 1610?

What was the population of Arawaks on Haiti in 1492, and what was it reduced to by 1515, according to the figures in Chapter 1?

In the view of the Puritan theologian Dr. Cotton Mather, how many Pequot souls were 'brought down to hell' in the Mystic River massacre?

What does Zinn argue is the primary driver behind the English invasion of North America and their brutal treatment of the Indians?

Zinn mentions that the Indians came to America from Asia about 25,000 years ago across what geographical feature?

What was the name of the confederacy of northeastern tribes that included the Mohawks, Oneidas, and Senecas?

What European values, as described by Zinn, were in 'sharp contrast' to the Iroquois culture?

What was the 'enormous consequence' of the Arawaks wearing tiny gold ornaments in their ears?

The first man to sight land on Columbus's voyage was a sailor named Rodrigo. What was his promised reward?

In his critique of historical narrative, Zinn uses the analogy of a mapmaker. What is the key difference he identifies between a mapmaker's distortion and a historian's distortion?

What action by Richard Grenville in 1585, before any permanent English settlement in Virginia, set a pattern for future English-Indian relations?

In the winter of 1610, the 'starving time,' what did the governor of the Virginia colony do when some English settlers ran off to join the Indians?

What was the name of the Wampanoag chief, son of Massasoit, who was called King Philip by the English?

What did Roger Williams identify as 'one of the gods of New England' that drove the murder of whole peoples?

Approximately how many years ago, according to Zinn, did the first people arrive in the Americas from Asia?

In the Iroquois villages, how were houses considered?

What was the counsel of the Pilgrim colony's pastor, John Robinson, on how to deal with the 'stubbornness' in children?

Zinn argues that his 'people's history' is biased. How does he justify this bias?

What was the name of the 'Moundbuilder' culture that developed in the Ohio River Valley around the time of Christ and Julius Caesar?

How many ships and men were part of Columbus's second expedition?

What does Zinn identify as the 'final excuse' for the annihilation of races, which he argues against in Chapter 1?