Christopher Columbus Discovering America

Every schoolchild knows the famous quote “Fourteen Hundred Ninety-Two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue”. What most children aren’t taught is that Christopher Columbus left an extremely violent and tragic legacy that is not worthy of an annual celebration. Every year, America devotes a holiday to a man who tortured, raped and murdered innocent people. Granted, the expedition Columbus embarked on brought a whole new understanding of the world to the Europeans. However, Christopher Columbus cared very little about establishing trade routes and interacting with foreign cultures. Not only are Americans idolizing a man who was not actually the first to discover their country, they are celebrating a holiday that praises a man who is a murderer, a tyrant and full of greed.

“In fourteen hundred ninety-two Columbus sailed the ocean blue.” One of the first things we learned in primary school was that Christopher Columbus discovered America. But they also made us read Christopher 's Journals (1493) such as “ They ... brought us parrots and balls of cotton and spears and many other things, which they exchanged for the glass beads and hawks ' bells. They willingly traded everything they owned... . They were well-built, with good bodies and handsome features.... They do not bear arms, and do not know them, for I showed them a sword, they took it by the edge and cut themselves out of ignorance. They have no iron. Their spears are made of cane... . They would make fine servants.... With fifty men we could subjugate them all and make them do whatever we want.” where he described how they met the “Taino indigenous peoples of Hispaniola.” However we as students never questioned how is that Columbus “discovered” America while in his journals (1493) he states that he encountered with peoples that lived there before he arrived , even though it wasn 't really America. Discover is define as “ to obtain sight or knowledge of for the first time.” There are many evidences that validates that Columbus did not discover America;One, is the inaccuracy in his studies, they believed and studied that Earth was flat and smaller than it actually was, while “

“In fourteen hundred ninety-two Columbus sailed the ocean blue.” One of the first things we learned in primary school was that Christopher Columbus discovered America, they also made us read Christopher 's Journals (1493) such as: “ They … brought us parrots and balls of cotton and spears and many other things, which they exchanged for the glass beads and hawks ' bells. They willingly traded everything they owned... . They were well-built, with good bodies and handsome features.... They do not bear arms, and do not know them, for I showed them a sword, they took it by the edge and cut themselves out of ignorance. They have no iron. Their spears are made of cane... . They would make fine servants.... With fifty men we could subjugate them all and make them do whatever we want.” Here he was describing what he encountered with the “Taino indigenous peoples of Hispaniola.” However, we as students never questioned how is it Columbus “discovered” America. In his journals (1493) he states that he encountered people that lived there before he arrived, even though it wasn 't really America. The word discover is defined as “ to obtain sight or knowledge of for the first time.” There is evidence that validate Columbus did not discover America. One evidence that validates Columbus did not discover America is the inaccuracy in his studies. Columbus and his cohorts believed and

Before Cuba became a nation, Cuba was first a Spanish colony. In 1492, Christopher Columbus, an Italian explorer, claimed Cuba as a colony of Spain after he was sent by the Spanish monarchy to find a route to Asia, specifically Southeast Asia. Columbus enlisted the help of the native people in Cuba, known as the Taino, to find consequential resources on the island for Spain. The Tainos’ willingness to aid Columbus caused the native people to become enslaved under Spanish rule. Despite the encouragement from Hatuey, a Taino leader who tried warning fellow Taino the horrors of Spanish subjugation, uprisings to remove the Spanish failed. In 1570’s, the economic success of the farming industry fueled Spain to import Africans to work as slaves.

This history of Mistreatment can be traced as far back as 1492 to Christopher Columbus. The true importance and history of Christopher Columbus is highly debated and is often misconstrued by the bias of textbooks writers. As students, most of us were taught the rhyme “in 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue”. Columbus was portrayed as one of the first American hero’s in our classrooms without question. Many of us can clearly recall Columbus Day celebrations in which students made arts and craft and sang songs about this hero by the name of Christopher Columbus. There is a much darker side to Columbuses exploration of the Americas that textbooks and teachers tend to leave out or fill with twisted recollection of events with rosy retrospection

In high school we learned the basis of what Christopher Columbus did, which was discover America. Imagine telling the controversial issues to kids in elementary school? It would confuse them. I think that he became a hero because over time he had to. We had to sell something until more research was conducted and discoveries were found. Do I personally think he is a hero? Not particularly. I think he had a mission and would not stand for distractions. His actions were that of someone with no empathy for others. He used people to get what he wanted and that is still common today. A hero by definition is "a person, typically a man, who is admired or idealized for courage, outstanding achievements, or noble qualities" none of three sources of controversy

Columbus was both a navigator and explorer, born in Genoa, Italy in 1451. He grew up as the son of a middle class weaver and as a teenager he first took an interest in seafaring life. As a young boy, he attended trading voyages between the Mediterranean and Aegean Seas. His first expedition to the Atlantic Ocean in 1476 was almost fatal. French privateers attacked the commercial fleet Columbus was traveling with and his ship burned down, leaving him to swim for his life. He washed up on a Portuguese shore and found his way to Lisbon. He furnished himself a niche there but eventually moved to Spain. He started his journies to gain information about the Atlantic currents and continued to seek faster trade routes across world

It all started when Christopher Columbus found America in 1492 and started a friendly relationship with the natives that stayed here for a very long time, then later as years went past Spanish, French , and British were thriving for land and invaded the Americas killing all the natives brutally, emotionless, greedily.

Throughout the world, Christopher Columbus has been known as a hero that discovered America. His disclosure helped execute a trade network between Europe (old world) and the America (new world). Which introduced new food and technology to both worlds. Although some may consider him as a legend, in many peoples’ eyes Christopher Columbus is a criminal that killed millions of natives, he took all the valuable goods from the natives without paying any price, and he is an enslaver. Therefore, columbus should not be considered as a hero.

The one thing we expect is for teachers to give us an education, that is true, but then why is, “Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492,”one of the most famously false concepts known to Americans? Leif Erikson was the one that discovered America in the times around 100 E.D. He was on his way to Greenland to spread christianity commanded by the Norwegian King, when he got off course, and landed on a different location, which he called Vinland where he stayed for 6 months. He describes these people who were very mean, and he didn't get along with at all, this is why he did not bring anyone here after discovering it. It is also very possible that he, if not landed in America, landed in the North American Continent because of how close

In 1492, a European named Christopher Columbus was the first person to discover the new world and forever changing the Americas. This discovery caused a chain of events that would bring many European to the new world. However, not everyone found their journey to the promise lands without great suffering. The Spanish and the English colonists traveled to the new worlds with hopes of new beginnings, great wealth & power, but were unaware of the difficulties and hardships that lay before them. Both Colonies experienced the same problems and managed some of the issues the same and others differently. the Hispaniola colony of 1493 and the Virginia colony of 1607 Colonies had the same settlement’s purpose but different leadership styles

Native American were portrayed exactly like savages that ran around hunt and dance half naked around the fire. But my how things were hidden from us, how we didn’t seek out to learn more then what was being thought to us. Population that big, well organized and civilized were all consider savage under the eyes of the colonist and the early European explore who came to Americas. It’s not surprising that major discovery such as they pyramids in the amazon forest are just being dig up now to study and learn more about the past because everyone was busy trying to survive the new colonies where they forgot to help those who already lived there.

During the late 15th century, Christopher Columbus discovered the Americas. Columbus started making a living there and survived through capitalism. Between 1450-1750, the higher classes (including Kings) in Africa sold lower class to europeans to become slaves in order to serve colonists in the American plantations.

The three essential thoughts that motivated the Spaniards’ that explored and conquered a portion of the New World are Gold, Glory, and God.

Who was Christopher Columbus? Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer who discovered the "New World". He discovered America on an expedition that was sponsored by the king of Spain, "King Ferdinana" in 1492. He was born in Genoa, Italy in the year of 1451. During his life he set out on many voyages trying to discover "New Land". On his first voyage in 1476 he nearly died when his ship was attacked by French Privateers, just off the coast of Portugal. He escaped death by fleeing the burning ship and swimming to land. Columbus had two sons. The first son named "Diego" was born in 1480 by his wife, and his second son Fernando was born from wedlock in 1488. Christopher Columbus was always coming up with plans to discover new land. His first