Columbus Blog #8

When were little we are taught that Christopher Columbus is the great discoverer of the Americas - but was he truly all we built him up to be? When he was exploring in the Americas he often talked about how the Indians would make good slaves, stating that they could never be equals. He was one to enslave innocent people of the Indian cultures. Why was this? Columbus didn't like the different cultures and powers, and is solution was enslaving them all. And along with imposing slavery upon the Indians Columbus found himself in a great amount of debt due to his borrowing of money for the adventures. He demanded that they pull together all the money he needed or they be killed.When Columbus and his mean first saw land, it was not Columbus who actually saw the first but someone else on the ship. But of course, he had to have the glory for himself. So he claimed he had seen the land far before the man and took the title. Clearly. This is no nice childhood hero.