Pros And Cons Of Explorers, Missionaries, Or Merchants

The explorers back then shouldn’t be considered explorers, missionaries, or merchants. They should be considered conquers, because they took other people’s land. They took other people’s belongings.
The explorers took not only the native’s land and goods, they also took the natives themselves as slaves. The natives that were brought back as slaves were forced to do hard labor against their will. They treated the natives like property and sold them off to work without pay. The slaves were fed very little, just enough to keep them alive and just enough to give them enough energy to work and slave away.
The explorers could also be considered merchants. They could be considered merchants, because the explorers brought back goods that they found

and traded with the natives. They brought back furs by trading cloth and metal utensils for eating with the natives. They received different kinds of pelts from different kinds of animals, like fox, beaver, ermine, and sable furs.
The explorers could also be considered missionaries. They could be considered missionaries, because, they were sent to distant lands to spread their religion. They tried converting the natives that they met into Christians. They tried converting the natives because, the explorers thought that Christianity was the only religion that mattered and that all the other religions in the world were wrong and not real.
Some ways that the explorer could be considered merchants are that they traded goods with the natives of the land that they took. They stole from the natives after they traded with them, they stole what was rightfully the natives land. They brought the natives back as slaves and sold them against their will.
They could also be considered missionaries. They were sent by their leaders to go on missions to find new land. They were assigned the mission to spread their religion, by forcing the natives to become Christians against their will, if they refused they killed the natives that refused.
Therefore the explorer should be considered conquers instead of merchants, explorers, or missionaries. They can’t be explorers, because they took the natives land against their will. They can’t be missionaries, because, even though they tried to spread their Christian religion to the natives whether or not they agreed to it. They couldn’t be considered merchants, even though that they brought back gold, furs, and many other treasures the natives had, they even took the natives themselves as slaves.