because he was ignorant, just as most Europeans of the time, if religious practices weren't like theirs - they didn't recognize it as religion.
Native Americans
people and animals and other items from the americas
Africans.
Yes because it celebrates the day Christopher Columbus came to the Americas and all the people who had celebrated.
Becuase He was the one people say discovered The Americas.
Christian, like most people in that era.
he explored the Americas and he went back to Spain and gave the queen his notes that was then published and he then brought a lot more people back to the Americas
He wanted to become famous and wealthy.
Columbus documented his journey to the Americas in his diary, noting details about the new lands, people he encountered, and his thoughts and observations. He wrote about his interactions with Indigenous populations, geographic discoveries, and his intentions to find a new route to Asia. Columbus's diary provides insight into the early European exploration of the Americas.
The Christian migrants who treated badly the people of the Americas and Australia
He would have come from a mindset in which Christianity, and most likely Roman Catholicism, was seen as the only true religion. It would have been easy for him to dismiss any ritual practices in the New World as barbaric and utterly without worth. He would certainly not have had anything vaguely like a modern understanding of diversity, and he may even have thought of natives in the Americas as subhuman.
It was the Religion of Spain and became the dominant religion of Puerto Rico after the Spanish explorers came to the Americas.