Christopher Columbus : The First Of Five Children

     Throughout all of our years that we are taught about world history, we are led to believe that Columbus was one of the greatest explorers of all time. In my mind there is no question about whether Christopher Columbus discovered America; of course he did, its Columbus! However, this is a highly debated issue and through writings by authors Jeffery Hart and James W. Loewen we will investigate the true importance of Columbus.

Christopher Columbus is best known for his voyage across the Atlantic where he accidentally discovered America. He paved the way for future exploration and set the course for history. Although Columbus is known as a historical hero for this discovery, he committed many awful acts along the way. Therefore, this writer concludes that Columbus was more of a villain than a hero.

Christopher Columbus has been discredited with discovering America, because for thousands of years, Native Americans had thrived on the land he claimed he discovered. There are also claims

Throughout many recent years, there has been a great deal of speculation about whether we should celebrate Columbus Day; whether Christopher Columbus, the man with a holiday named after him, the man who “discovered” America, was really hero. There are people who claim that Columbus was, in fact, someone to be celebrated. This is false. Christopher Columbus was, most blatantly put, a villain. He deserves this status because he did not discover the land now known as America, he forced his beliefs onto others, and he utterly destroyed the lives of unknowing, innocent people.

He brought many accomplishments for Spain and was seen as a hero. Columbus was a very dedicated Christian. He started spreading it and tried to get others to see that God was very important (Doc. 3) Since he was a very true Christian, nuns came over and brought education to many people. They taught them needlework, embroidery, drawing, and other domestic arts (Doc.6). Columbus brought good to society, because of him many people were allowed an education. He allowed society to grow and flourish through education and Christianity. People thought Columbus brought diseases that caused so many to die. These diseases were caused by the natural world and were bound to happen . There is very few evidence to connect it to Columbus.(Doc.7) Although Columbus was responsible for a certain percentage of natives death there is insufficient evidence to connect him to the deaths that happened simultaneously and after his

In grade school, we are taught that Christopher Columbus was the man who discovered America. Now that we are older, we have learned more in depth about him as a person and explorer. Not only did he set sail Westward in search of new findings, but that he would claim them as his own, eventually they would be inherited by his eldest son, and the generations after (Columbus, Journal, paragraph 1). Columbus did leave a legacy, nonetheless like every story, there are many obstacles that lay ahead.

Christopher Columbus was famous for being the man to “discover” the New World. In America, he is widely revered as the man responsible for finding the country that exists today. Although well known for his admirable sailing skills and abilities, Christopher Columbus was anything but a hero and his legacy was nothing but a mere miscalculation. There is much more to the story of the explorer than what we were taught to believe was true. The only thing that was true was that he discovered a land that was not yet known by the “civilized” world. However, that does not cover up for the fact he was a murderer who basically erased the existence of the natives who inhabited the land previous to their arrival. To believe that every history textbook depicts him as this legendary person who discovered the Americas and his bravery was well recognized by the people that we created a

It also gives a completely wrong impression to say that Columbus “discovered” America; as Indigenous people, we often say that he invaded America” (Mitchell,2017). Another point to mention is that Christopher Columbus never “discovered” America. There is historical evidence that suggests that Vinkings explorers landed in the Americas before Columbus, “The Vikings' early expeditions to North America are well documented and accepted as historical fact by most scholars. Around the year 1000 A.D., the Viking explorer Leif Erikson, son of Erik the Red, sailed to a place he called "Vinland," in what is now the Canadian province of Newfoundland” (Weiner, 2007). However, despite the historical evidence that there may be nothing honor about Columbus, in many countries, he continues to be portrayed as a hero who discovered America. Also, many history books around the world continues giving him credit for “discovering”

Christopher Columbus is mostly famous for being credited with discovering the Americas. It is said to be that his explorations paved the way for the colonization and exploration of certain areas. How can Christopher Columbus be the first to discover the Americas, if there were people living there when he arrived? I did come to one accurate conclusion of what Christopher Columbus was famous for. Christopher Columbus was the first person from overseas (foreigner) to find the Americas, not the first to find the Americas. After arriving to the Americas to see he wasn’t the first person there, you would think his character and attitude towards the natives would have been positive. Christopher Columbus was known to be very cruel, greedy, and manipulative to the natives. Christopher Columbus enslaved indigenous people and also raped the women. He killed and tortured many Native Americans when he landed in the West Indies, and also made some of them slaves. Mind you that slavery was in Spain, one of his previous journeys, and hasn’t been introduced to the New World (Fernandez-Armesto). Not only was Columbus filthy verbally, but physically too, due to the fact he brought diseases to the New World and also died from one. Columbus too, took advantage of natural resources. Slave trade was active in the Americas, because the natives could have

To fully understand the motives behind Columbus and his idea of sailing westward, you have to look at the time period in which he lived. He lived during a time

Christopher Columbus, born in 1451 in Genoa,Italy, believed that sailing to the west across the Atlantic Ocean was the shortest and fastest sea route to the continent of Asia. Columbus did not realize that the western hemisphere is between Europe and Asia. This led to Columbus making the assumption that the Earth was a third of its actual size. Like many others in this time period, Christopher Columbus was unbothered by the political allegiances. He was willing to sail for whatever country would sponsor his voyage. However, he could never find a patron due to his arrogance or ambition. On August 2,1492, Columbus sent 3 ships which were accompanied by crews of eighty-seven men. These men made landfall on October 12th,1492, on the island of San Salvador. He made another voyage and explored present day Puerto Rico and Jamaica. Columbus made two more voyages made between the years of 1498 and 1500 to the Caribbean and the northern coast of South America. Months after he explored present day Cuba and Hispaniola Christopher Columbus found significant amounts of gold. Many of Christopher Columbus’ successes created potential conflict between Spain and Portugal. There are many reasons why the Spanish Monarch hired Columbus to find another route to Asia, however the main reasons are to get the Queen and King more land, riches, and crops.

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

Many children in school have been taught that Christopher Columbus found America and that he was a hero when in reality he was a savage. There have been many important people in our history from scientists, mathematicians, and explorers and Christopher Columbus was one of them. He has always been known as one of the first and greatest explorers that discovered North America even though he never set foot on the North America continent. He rose from a small family to have great prestige and wealth.

Christopher Columbus is most widely known for being the first to discover the Americas. He actually wasn’t the first. Many know him as a hero, but he was far from one. Today we will be digging deeper into who Christopher Columbus really was, what his struggles were, and how Columbus’ discovery impacted the decade.

However, this does not mean that he discovered it. The idea that he discovered the entire land is a lie that is often taught in American elementary schools. In reality, the Indians migrated for thousands of years to finally settle in the Americas and set up their own tribes and systems. This is a fact that needs to be taught in schools rather than the idea that Columbus discovered America. The important thing that the children understand is that Christopher Columbus’s voyage mainly ended up being a good thing for the Europeans, and not the Native Americans.