# A gold-or-cotton tribute is imposed on Hispaniola as a dated extraction quota

Date: 1495

## The fact

In 1495 [Columbus](/people/christopher-columbus) imposed a gold-or-cotton tribute on Hispaniola. Tokens marked payment. Unique death totals stay later estimates. Christopher Columbus's documented role is: He set a tribute of gold or cotton with tokens. Non-payment was punished in the received file; unique death totals stay later estimates.

## Context

Caciques are the received local counterparts. Sharing the quota with that extraction machine is required. The setting of A gold-or-cotton tribute is imposed on Hispaniola as a dated extraction quota is the public file around 1495-01-01. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Contribution type is direct. Driver [fiscal-policy-sustainability](/drivers/fiscal-policy-sustainability) is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Do not invent a unique integer. Las Casas later is a carrier, not 1495 autograph. Mixed effects of A gold-or-cotton tribute is imposed on Hispaniola as a dated extraction quota are separate paths.

## Evidence and sources

Official locator: Britannica — Columbus, tribute on Hispaniola at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Christopher-Columbus (Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent locator: Cambridge studies neighbourhood on 1495 tribute at https://www.cambridge.org/core/ (Cambridge University Press). Official carrier: Britannica — Columbus, tribute on Hispaniola (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Christopher-Columbus; Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent carrier: Cambridge studies neighbourhood on 1495 tribute (https://www.cambridge.org/core/; Cambridge University Press).

Official or archival record: Britannica — Columbus, tribute on Hispaniola (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Christopher-Columbus; Encyclopaedia Britannica).

## Significance

Worsening path from A gold-or-cotton tribute is imposed on Hispaniola as a dated extraction quota on 1495-01-01. A head-tribute quota is a fiscal-extraction path of high weight. The welfare reading on this path is worsening.

The contribution type is direct. The attached driver is fiscal-policy-sustainability. The welfare reading used in this dossier is worsening. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

## What is established and what is not

Established: a sourced public record of A gold-or-cotton tribute is imposed on Hispaniola as a dated extraction quota under 1495-01-01 for Christopher Columbus. Established: a sourced public record of A gold-or-cotton tribute is imposed on Hispaniola as a dated extraction quota under 1495-01-01.

Shared responsibility is part of A gold-or-cotton tribute is imposed on Hispaniola as a dated extraction quota. Naming Christopher Columbus does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1495-01-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

## People

- Christopher Columbus: https://factrail.ai/people/christopher-columbus

## Drivers

- Fiscal-Policy Sustainability: https://factrail.ai/drivers/fiscal-policy-sustainability

## Sources

- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Christopher-Columbus
- https://www.cambridge.org/core/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/col-tribute-1495