Was Christopher Columbus A Hero?

School taught us about the infamous Christopher Columbus who was known as the hero who found the Americas in 1492, but is that the truth? Is Columbus really the hero that grade school portrayed him to be? Columbus was not. Columbus was a greedy man who destroyed an entire race of people with genocide just so only he could benefit and become a man of money and power.

All my life, I have been hearing about Christopher Columbus. Since little, first, my family talking about him, then in school learning about him. I really thought he was a hero. The way they teach you about him in grammar school or middle school makes you think he really is a hero. But later on, doing research on him, looking for what he really did, where did he came from etc. I realize that he is not a hero. There are many reasons why people think he is good as well there are many reasons why they think he is bad. Personally I think Columbus is a villain, he did a lot of bad things that most people don’t know a bout. However if they know them, it would make them think a little bit deeper if Columbus is the Hero

Many times Christopher Columbus was celebrated. But was he truly a hero? Until recent times, no one knew what harm he did. Now he is criticized and people are torn between celebrating him or to forget about him. In “Columbus and the Indians” by Historian Howard Zinn, Zinn writes about Columbus’s expedition and his terrible treatment of the Native Americans. Nevertheless, “Why we should celebrate Columbus day” , by The Order of the Sons of Italy talks about all the wonderful accomplishments Columbus made. Howard Zinn notes all the harm Columbus did, while The Order of the Sons of Italy believes that Columbus was a hero for discovering America.

Christopher Columbus A Hero or Villain? Was Christopher Columbus a hero or a villain? He was a villain he was horrible! Those innocent people did not deserve that. What was Columbus motive in finding a route to Asia through the Atlantic?

There is a big controversy between if Columbus is a Hero or Villain. I am sure he did a lot of wonderful things however there was a lot of bad things that he did. I do not feel that the good things should override all the bad things that he did.

I was taught that Columbus was a great hero for discovery America all through elementary and junior high every one of my history will tell the exactly same stories about him with little bit more details. I guess it never accord to me he can also have a bad side to him as well, and in history in High school you learn to take the whole picture, and then you make your decision. After reading Howard Zinn I know now that Columbus isn’t that great of a guy that we celebrate today. Everyone has bad past want to forgot, and the great Columbus Had one too.

Even though he is celebrated in the United States, Christopher Columbus should not be considered a hero. He took advantage of the generosity of the American natives he found. His greedy ambition had horrible results that most Americans do not even realize.

Everyone knows Christopher Columbus as the man that discovered America, but was he a hero? It depends on what one defines as a hero, but the most basic definition of a hero is someone who is known for their courageous and noble acts. If that is the case, then Columbus is not a hero for three different reasons. First, He only discovered America on accident. Second, he captured Native Americans and brought them back to Spain to be slaves.

He was not a hero. Columbus is a murderer and I think everyone should know the truth about him. He murdered the Natives and even members of his own crew if they did not obey his wishes. He enslaved the Natives. He basically came in and took over what belongs to the Natives at that time. The entire article upset me. Everything he did was evil and cruel, no humans should be treated the way Columbus treated them. I really believe that Columbus doesn’t deserve the title of a hero. After all is cruel deeds, I certainly think that Columbus should have been called “the

America has come to know many incredible and brave explorers over the years. Most people are familiar with Marco Polo, James Cook, Leif Eriksson, and Neil Armstrong. The most common is Christopher Columbus, but is this great explorer all that we thought he was? Brave, heroic, smart, tough, legendary, and resourceful would be the words that came to my mind when I thought about Christopher Columbus, but let’s dig a little under the surface and see if those still apply.

In his biography of Christopher Columbus, historian Felipe Fernandez- Armesto, wrote the true side to Columbus. Columbus had facers to himself both brilliant and evil., “Her had an implacable temperament which could never be satisfied and unremitting ambition which could never be assuaged.”(Fernandez Columbus) Columbus was a ruthless, rough conquistador who encountered the Indians and treated then with no respect whatsoever. Columbus did anything possible to conquer the world even if that meant behaving like a villain.

Christopher Columbus was first thought to be a great hero for discovering the new world. But the Native Americans that resided there had occupied the land for years. Was he really a hero? Though he might have located the Americas what he did while he was there was cruel and unacceptable. Arguing that his actions were in line with the Christian faith, Columbus turned a blind eye to the thousands of afflicted Tainos, Lucayan, and Arawak. A cruel man and unfair ruler he treated the natives and inferior with unreasonable punishments. Only those who ignore all the facts and the conduct of Columbus while he was in the Americas could claim that he was a hero.

First of all, Columbus used violence. He lacked respect for the indigenous people he encountered. He also forced the so called “Indians,” to be Christians. The third thing Christopher Columbus did, was spread diseases from one place, to another, from his different interactions.

In my perspective I believe that Christopher Columbus was a villain because he has done many bad things in the past and not much of good. Columbus has portrayed many personalities to get what he wanted, but towards the end more of his true personality was seen. Throughout history, people believed that since Christopher Columbus explored and “discovered” the New World that he is a hero, but what he did after he found the land makes him not a hero but a villain, the foe.

Many people think that Christopher Columbus is a Hero and some may think he is a Villain. Personally I think that he was a villain because on his voyages he did things to people that was outrageous to the eye. People/books claim that he was the first to reach North America but I believe he was not the first to discover North America. Plus he tried to prove that the world was round but how can you do that when you weren't the first one to come up with this statement?