Was Christopher Columbus a hero, an explorer, or a genocidal villain? Christopher Columbus can be viewed in many different ways, depending on whose point of view you were looking at history from. To the Spanish and European empire Columbus would have looked like an explorer, who was risking his life and the and the lives of his men to search and explore the world to bring home unfathomable gold, spices, and goods from far away lands, to bring prosperity and new prospects back to their land. There is something romantic in that notion, if viewed from that point of view. So it’s no wonder that as children we are taught more in line with the romanticizing of Columbus and what had become of the nation after Columbus was through with his exploring / genocide. Yes you read that right genocide. For you see if you look at history from another point of view as in the point of view of the natives who were here long before Columbus ever came to the Americas and ruined the race and culture of a relatively peaceful people. To the natives Columbus was no romantic explorer, exploring the world for goods and services. He and his men where genocidal maniacs, who were raping, torturing, and destroying their people and their lands. There are many first hand accounts of the atrocities that Columbus and his men perpetrated upon the natives. Such as stabbing them, and cutting off chunks of flesh merely to test the sharpness of their blades, enslaving their people and working them to the point of death all for shiny chunks of metal which the natives saw no value in. as well as many more examples of the whores and atrocities that Columbus and his men put the Native Americans through. I think it’s safe to say that to the Native Americans Columbus was no romantic Explorer or hero he was a maniac, a monster, and a killer.
[Last Name] 2 Some might still argue that despite what Columbus and his men did to the Native Americans, that in the end it was justified, because we now have...