Columbus wanted gold more than anything else.
when he did not find any, he enslaved and killed the natives as he forced them to him look for gold.
europeans knew about gold and how to get it and work with it.
now infer, by using this information and other things you know about life: what was the likely reason columbus never found gold in the indies?
question 4 options:
a)
large amounts of gold did not naturally occur in the islands.
b)
columbus and his men did not know how to mine large amounts of gold.
c)
the natives hid large amounts of their gold and would not share.