(01.01 MC)Read the excerpt to answer the question below.”The…
(01.01 MC)Read the excerpt to answer the question below.”They neither care nor know anything of arms, for I showed them swords, and they took them by the blade and cut themselves through ignorance. They have no iron, their darts being wands without iron, some of them having a fish’s tooth at the end, and others being pointed in various ways…I was attentive, and took trouble to ascertain if there was gold. I saw that some of them had a small piece fastened in a hole they have in the nose, and by signs I was able to make out that to the south, or going from the island to the south, there was a king who had great cups full, and who possessed a great quantity.”Source: Christopher Columbus, from his journal entries dated 12–14 October, 1492Reports such as Columbus’s encouraged the European powers to