"For I knew that they were a people who could be more easily freed and converted to our holy faith by love than by force, gave to some of them red caps, and glass beads to put round their necks, and many other things of little value, which gave them great pleasure, and made them so much our friends....It appeared to me to be a race of people very poor in everything....They have no iron, their darts being wands without iron, some of them having a fish's tooth at the end....They should be good servants and intelligent, for I observed that they quickly took in what was said to them, and I believe that they would easily be made Christians as it appeared to me that they had no religion."The sentiments expressed by Columbus in the excerpt above best support which future Spanish goal?
