Why Is Christopher Columbus Wrong

In elementary school students are taught that Christopher Columbus is some godly hero who discovered that the earth was round and a shorter route to “Asia”. They even have a day dedicated to him. Typically, children are gullible and just believe what they are taught, rather than actually researching and learning the history on their own. As a child one’s brain is not developed enough to possess a sense of moral discernment. Also, children are not taught any other version of the story. However, as one grows and matures and learns more about Christopher Columbus, one can see a darker side of him. According to research, he took advantage of the kindness of many indigenous land

The problem was that many people believed that the world was flat. Without knowing what was going to happen to him, Columbus went against the popular belief of his time and bravely set out with three ships and sailed out towards the horizon. Eventually he would reach land and open up an entire New World to Europe. Columbus, on his four voyages, explored all the islands of the Caribbean and Honduras. Columbus was a man ready and eager for adventure and discovery. Today we follow his example as we explore the universe, the ocean floors, and the microscopic world. Scientists, like Columbus, are always questioning popular beliefs and setting out to prove a new theory. Columbus is a hero for all scientists and explorers today. Columbus deserves to be recognized as an American hero on Columbus Day for inspiring all people to pursue courage, discovery, exploration, and adventure.

When Columbus sailed to prove that the world was round, according to the website Livescience.com, he was late by two-thousand years. Ancient Greek mathematicians already have already proved that the world was round and not flat. Also according to this website, Columbus’s education was self taught and he believed that Europe was wider, and that Japan was further away from China’s coast. These are the reasons that he was going to try and find shorter trade route to Asia. When a student hears Columbus’ name they may instantly think that he was the first person to discover America. Although there were millions of Native Americans who were living in the New World, Columbus is the man who is getting all of the credit for finding the New World. There were also other travelers who had discovered America before Christopher Columbus.

When columbus first found the Americas little did he or anyone in this case know everything that would happen in the next few years he would rewrite history and change it to how we know it now.

Even though Columbus was not the first person to step foot in the America’s, he was the first person, from the Eastern Hemisphere, to discover it. For example, when we discover a new species on an island, we may not have known that it existed, but the other living creatures there knew that it did. While Rebecca Dobbs in Document B is right that the Americas were not empty by any stretch of imagination and people lived there and knew about this part of the world, others did not know about it. However, in a letter to Queen Isabelle, Columbus states that they have landed on an island and the people there

Until the sixteenth century, the experts in that period of time believed that it was impossible to sail west across from the Atlantic to Asia. By his adventure, Christopher Columbus, an Italian navigator, proved that they were wrong. However, based on the theory that the earth was a sphere, he thought that he could reach the East Indies by sailing west. He calculated the distance from Portugal to Asia was shorter than to Congo. In fact, the real distance from Portugal to Japan was much further, over ten thousand miles. With his erroneous estimate, he planned a scheme to prove he was right. After several unsuccessful lobbying in Portugal, Spain, even in England and France, eventually, in 1492, he won financing for his journey from Spanish monarchs,

Support did not come easy to Christopher Colombus. For a long time people believed the earth was flat. Eventually, “discoveries linking astronomy, geometry, and time made by ancient observers of the heavens were viewed, not as some abstract notion of mathematics, but as servants of religion.” With the new concept that the earth could be round the Columbus tried to convince leader to offer him patronage of countries such as --. Motivated by political and religious reasons the Spanish crown decided to pursue the exploration of the Americas. The search

As innumerable photographs from space can bear witness to, Earth is round—the "Blue Marble," as space travelers have tenderly named it. Appearances, be that as it may, can bamboozle. Planet Earth is not, actually, impeccably round. This is not to state Earth is level. A long time before Columbus cruised the sea blue, Aristotle and other old Greek researchers suggested that Earth was round. This depended on various perceptions, for example, the way that withdrawing ships seemed littler as they cruised away as well as appeared to sink into the

Columbus’ postulation that the world was not flat because any educated person in that time new that the world was round.

In America, schoolchildren acknowledge Christopher Columbus as a hero. But every year on Columbus Day, the question remains; does this man truly deserve the title of a “hero”? Should the man who enslaved and killed over 3-8 million Natives be worthy of a vanilla historical figure for the eyes of America’s youth? The answer would lead to a simple no with proper knowledge and information. However, many people continue to admire Columbus today. For example, it is widely believed that Columbus proved the Earth was round by sailing to the New World. That claim would be false, for ancient Greek mathematicians have already proved the Earth was round. The Columbus flat-earth myth perhaps originated with Washington Irving's 1828 biography of Columbus;

In my opinion, I believe that the theory that Christopher Columbus discovered America should not be taught in public schools. One reason to prove this is that there were Native Americans already in North America when he came. Referring to the text, “Primary Source: Columbus Meets the Tanios” on page 70, of the book, “The American Nation”, it says, “Columbus recorded his first meeting with the Tanios… people are ingenious and would be very good servants… they would very readily become Christians… very quickly learn such words spoken to them,”. This tells me that Columbus just looked for his benefit by going to America. That’s because he said that the Tainos would be good servants and be Christians. This proves the theory wrong because it really isn’t true. That’s because since Columbus saw the Natives there when he go there, that means there were people who reached before him. The Native Americans reached America thousands of years before Columbus. Therefore, Columbus was definitely not the first person to land in North America.

“By 1492, most educated Europeans already believed the earth was round.” Columbus came to America by miscalculation, which was in fact not “inevitable” due to research at the time. I feel the reason Columbus sailed to America is because he thought the world was smaller at the time. “Contrary to popular myth, Columbus did not set out to prove that the world was round, but rather that it was possible to sail around it, a voyage the explorer drastically

Most history textbooks take Christopher Columbus and put him on a pedestal. These textbooks make Columbus the fantastic hero who was the first person to discover the Americas. These textbooks were wrong in idolizing Columbus. One text called The Lies my Teacher Told Me contradicts these textbooks. The text states that there were already many different groups of people that landed in, explored, or colonized the Americas. The first group of people was the ancestors to the Native Americans that were living there when Columbus came in 1492. Also the Norse established a colony in Greenland for 500 years (Loewen, 8). While there, the Norse explored parts of North America (Loewen, 8). This evidence proves that Columbus was not the first person to discover the Americas. Columbus began the demise of the current Indian cultures in the area. While Christopher Columbus and the

I like how the South and the North came together and not allow people to die and suffer. Also, how they do not want their people to get hurt anymore. They hosted a meeting for people from the South, North and the people of Eagle. It’s time to end the hunger. What surprised me is that a guy started to sing about Christopher Columbus and how he is a liar because he wasn’t the first person that discovered America and lied to his people. Another thing that i was shocked about is that they beat women up. Nowadays is called abuse and people would call the cops. They went to stop this and become one. They can not celebrity the stealing of their land. Something that surprised me is that people are dying of alcohol. They are not getting shot by guns

In 1543 Nicholas Copernicus, a Polish Canon, published “On the Revolution of the Celestial Orbs”. The popular view is that Copernicus discovered that the earth revolves