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Little Nico was cutting down the woods, when he heard horses marching towards him. A tall man, who was dressed in a weird manner, standing in front of him. The tall man asked "where is you're chief young man?" He didn't know what to answer. He thought the man would harm him and his tribe. Nico ran to his chief Alvez to warn him about the white men. The tall man came out of the crowd, and said to his men to scatter around the tribe. Nico threw a stone at the white men and their horses. The tribe was frightened by the wild horses and were surprised by little Nico's behavior.

The chief asked "Why have you come oh Columbus"? Columbus said " I have come to take your land. You have 2 choices: you leave the land or stay and die". The tribe was afraid and was told by Alvez to be prepared to convince Columbus into not taking their land or lives. Since tribe could not face to loose thier lands,they had to show Columbus how brave they were. Instead of letting Columbus's men take their land, they would make a deal with them The tribe decided to give the riches and valuables of their land to save themselves. The Cehena tribe had valuable resources such as: forests, fertile soil,lakes, and rivers. The forests provided woods for great,strong homes. They also had fertile soil for farming which provided a lot of corn. Corn was the main crop that the Cehena tribe had. Columbus didn't have some of these resources back in Spain. After hearing the Chief's deal, Columbus dismissed the tribe and set off in his long ship.

One morning, Nico was walking the wild dogs when the dogs started digging in the fertile soil. Nico tried to stop the dogs, but the dogs dug up a shiny yellow object Nico took the object to the Chief. The chief was so surprised to see the yellow shiny object. Then the chief decided to show it to Columbus. He thought "maybe we can give this to Columbus, and keep our land and survive." Then for the rest of the month, the Cehena tribe dug and dug till they found so much gold which was more than a pound! Nico was given a reward, 10 acres of land!

After 4 weeks, Columbus came back to take over the lands of the Cehena tribe. Though, the Cehena tribe wasn't prepared. Although the Cehena tribe wasn't prepared, they knew they were strong and had something valuable. Columbus had seen the mess that the Cehena had made of their land with all the digging thay had done.

Columbus was really angry and said to the chief " what have you done to the land I wanted to take"? Alvez: "We were digging up some shiny yellow things."

Columbus: "What yellow thing, show me at once or you shall die!"

Alvez: (presenting the nugget) here sir Columbus!

Columbus: "This is unbelievable. This is here on your land? "

Alvez: Sure sir, we have abundant of these yellow nuggets. But sir, what is this?

Columbus: Don't you know this is gold? It is very valuable in our country.

Alvez: Okay we have a deal. But first you must stay calm and don't kill my people.

Columbus: OK! What is your deal?

Alvez: "Our deal is that we will give you our gold that we have dug up, and you can trade it on your way. we will give you some of our fresh foods such as: corn ,squash, pumpkin, you can try these different food and trade it on your way."

Columbus : "OK I will take your deal and leave. However, in return every year you and your people will have to dig up 14 pounds of gold and give as much crops you can give. And all this will be given at the Columbian Exchange."

Columbus was really irritated and wanted to just leave because he had been there for a long time and the Cehena tribe took it easy. The power of Columbus didn't work with the Cehena tribe and had to leave.

Columbus was leaving with the gold, but was wondering what the queen and king would think of this deal. He thought he would get into trouble and not be send on any other voyages. The Cehena tribe took Columbus's deal and became friends. Now there was peace between the Cehena tribe and Columbus.