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Thus the European invasion was not generated by a humanistic and scientific spirit. Nor the invasion and conquest had the full the authority and control of the spanish crown. It was a warrior and commercial enterprise performed in part by the "investors", rich merchants who primarily wished to find a new Asian trade route and then plunder the precious metals from the newly "discovered" land and exploit its inhabitants to an extermination point. Columbus himself is driven by greed and ambition. The Hispanic "official story" has presented him as a humanist Explorer. There is nothing further from the truth.

Recent research has shown that Christopher Columbus, was not Genovese, but apparently jewish catalan. Who was advised by merchants, makes the Catholic monarchs, on April 17, 1492, sign the so-called Santa Fe capitulations,^[1] where he asked for the titles of "Major Admiral of the ocean sea, Viceroy and Governor General" of the lands he would discover, the right to present the list (three names) for appointment of councilors, a tenth or 10% of all goods to be negotiated in the Indies, exclusivity right on disputes that may arise by the Indian merchandise, and to contribute with an “ocheno” or eighth part
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1. The Capitulations of Santa Fe between Christopher Columbus and the Catholic Monarchs were signed in Santa Fe, Granada on April 17, 1492. They granted Columbus the titles of Admiral of the Ocean Sea, the Viceroy, the Governor-General and honorific Don, and also the tenth part of all riches to be obtained from his intended voyage. The document followed a standard form in 15th-century Castile with specific points arranged in chapters. Although not a formal agreement, the capitulations resulted from negotiation.