and killed some too. What do you think about him?
2007-10-09 04:52:11 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
We know he was a poor sailor. He was 13.000 miles off course when he bumped into America. He thought he had finally found India... so he called it, the West Indies. Heck, he wasn't even in the right hemisphere! We give the guy far too much credit.
2007-10-09 04:55:50 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
A guy with some large cahones that happened upon a previously little known half of the world (at least for the Eurasians) and brought about the downfall of many native N. and S. American civilizations.
I think he had some serious guts to sail off the edge of the known world, but probably didn't have too honorable of a motivation. He did play a pretty important role in our history, though.
2007-10-09 04:59:40 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The second description is closer to the truth.
Same with all of those so-called "discoverers." Cortez and Coronado came to the "New World" and, perhaps taking a queue from the Bible, saw fit to butcher the native populace (both by sword and by the disease they carried) and convert the remainder to that other disease, Christianity. Columbus wasn't the first anywhere, but he was the guy who really got Europe hot for New World colonization. He's directly responsible for the fact that we still call the natives of this continent "Indians," just in case it turns out that this actually IS India; and he's indirectly responsible for millions of their deaths.
2007-10-09 04:57:26 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
What does this have to do with religion?
The only Columbus was finding land is because the Spanish wanted gold and any valuable wealth.
America not me even those I live in America, celebrating because America think he get credit for finding piece of land that lead people farther to find America.
In America's eye, he found America which is technically not true!
The story goes, the crew members were disgruntled and there goes a civil wars in his own ship.
Columbus when he landed, thought he landed on India and therefore called the people "Indian". This is why we called people in America "indian" when pilmgrim landed to settle new land.
2007-10-09 05:08:38 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Cristobal Colombo was a fraud, huckster, and con man that tried to set up his own kingdom in the new world, ripped off the Spanish monarchy and should be remembered as the jerk that initiated the Holocaust of the indigenous people in the Americas.
2007-10-09 04:57:55 · answer #5 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you can't 'discover' a place where 100 million people already live (even the islands had thousands there).
he did more than corrupting... he killed and enslaved a bunch, too, and set the stage for the importation of African slaves to 'his' islands.
2007-10-09 04:57:25 · answer #6 · answered by kent_shakespear 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
a guy that discovered some Islands and corrupted a bunch of indians and killed some too.
It wasn't only him, all Europeans harrassed and killed natives of the American continent, they even forced the natives to change religion to christianity, not columbus, but the ones that came after him.
2007-10-09 04:54:53 · answer #7 · answered by King Of Utopia 2 · 5⤊ 2⤋
And was big time lost since he actually thought the people were Indians. India is on the other side of the world you see.
2007-10-09 04:55:51 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Columbus was a man of his times, shaped by his times, guided by his times. He should not be villified or glorified either one. He was simply the first renisance European to voyage to the America's, for that idea he deserves his place in history.
2007-10-09 05:00:33 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
He was a great explorer who dreamed of opening trade routes to India. Okay, so he wasn't the best navigator because he missed India and found North America instead! LOL
I don't think Columbus could have (or should have been expected to) forseen the inevitable outcome of his exploration.
2007-10-09 04:56:34 · answer #10 · answered by kja63 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋