please explain your answer
2006-10-22 11:01:46 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
He's a success, he's glorified in all of the school textbooks.
2006-10-22 11:03:34 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Well since the Vineland map was proven a fake, that puts Chris back in the running for the first European to discover America. So thats good, But he dies without ever realizing it, so thats bad. I think that Europeans at the time thought him a great success, the Native americans that he enslaved probably thought he was... not so much. Either way, if by success, you mean, who paved the away to the Americas for the Europeans? Then the answer would have to be yes.
2006-10-22 11:08:57 · answer #2 · answered by Al 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
a little bit of both. A failure because he never studied eenough to realize that he didn't find asia. Also he gave a false name to native americans. He is a success because he inspired further exploration in Europe and Spain, which caused America to be further found and made into the amazing country it is today. Believe it or not I just learned about this in school lik two weeks ago.
2006-10-22 11:06:09 · answer #3 · answered by Halloween Freak 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No one is a complete success or a complete failure. He didn't do what he set out to do, so in that way he was a failure. He did do some remarkable discovering, so that is a good thing--success?
2006-10-22 11:09:41 · answer #4 · answered by sixgun 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
He was a success. He made several voyages though he never found the short cut to the Indies, to travel so far and not knowing where he and his men would end up or if they would return on those tiny ships is really an achievement.
2006-10-22 11:20:39 · answer #5 · answered by AJ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He is famous for making a huge error..
but, success is defined more by how you handle your errors. He discovered he had lemons, and found a way to make lemonade out of it.
He successfully turned his blunder into a huge success.
2006-10-22 11:11:50 · answer #6 · answered by Me 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
a complete faiulure to begin with and then he was a seccess.
he was FAR from india when he landed here so that was failed.
but when he came back to enslave all the native people he found that were in the place that wasnt india he was a success cuz he killed em all off and enslaved em.
see its a 2 part answer.
2006-10-22 11:04:04 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
is a successful one because with out him spanish conquesitors will not invade mexico and peru and loot all the wealth from latin america. without him united states will never exist because england will not send expeditions to america.
2006-10-22 12:32:27 · answer #8 · answered by icac83 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He succeeded in discovering a new continent for the Europeans, so in a European perspective, he was a big success.
2006-10-22 11:14:17 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Failure, he was trying to find a Western route to India, he found a big hunk of land. He died nearly broke in the Bahamas. Amerigo Vespucci got to name the country. HA HA
2006-10-22 11:04:03 · answer #10 · answered by Thin Ice 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
well he was suppose to go to the west indies....he was kinda in a way he opened the americas up for many different things
ex
immigration, different goods to bring to europe.
however he was not the first one to find america-the natives were.
and he brought violence and almost brought a race to the brink of extinction and some he did. so its a toss up.
2006-10-22 11:04:16 · answer #11 · answered by Suki_Sue_Curly_Q 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋