Wow.....you post an anti-Catholic website used by religious bigots as some sort of evidence of evils of 1490s?? Should I look for your next link to the Daily Stormer?? Ray, you forget that in 1490s, it was before the Reformation. Whole of Europe, were part of the "immorality" of Roman Catholic Church. We are not counting here, anything east of Poland where the Greek Orthodox Church was evolving into Russian. We should not forget that this was the age where some part of the European coastline were void of life, due to white slavery practiced upon by the elements of the Ottoman Empire, the supreme power in Europe during that period. Spain just reunified their nation. Wars and all of its cruelty was part of the European culture without any help from the Catholic Papacy. Columbus acted no differently then another other European of that time period. It is unfair to judge any people or person in such way. Just remember that 100 years from now, what we do normally, may be judge wrong!!