Columbus Case
Columbus Debate
Columbus hero, villain, or both in todays world. Columbus has been one of the main topic in America today. People say we should continue celebrating Columbus Day in October thirteen for his great discovery of the New World called America. The Native Americans and other native born in America said we have to stop celebrating Columbus Day. Columbus himself made some achievements and poor decisions in his life. Achievements like starting a colonization in the New World. First European to set foot in America. He claimed lands for the king and queen from the country of Spain. He made bad decisions in a way that made so many people view him as a genocide pirate, murderer, rapist, and enslaver. In this paper, my opinion will be answer on Columbus a hero, villain, or both to the New World.
Columbos is a hero for his great achievments. A lot of people misunderstand the meaning of discovery. Discovery means a inidvidual or a nation finds something or someone or some people or some places of special importance, not known to them. That is what Columbus has achieve of rediscovering America for the Spanish. Columbus also showed the way for other people from different sets of country from Europe to come. Without him discovering America where will todays people living in America be. He brought religion to an unkown place with people who do not know anything of christianity. Everybody now today has a different religion from Christian, Catholic, Jew and more. He became a brave hero for the U.S because of his brave exploration of the perilous oean led to the founding of the country, albeit by the english. He inspired so many travelers to settle in the New World.
Columbus is a villian for all the wrong decisions he made. A quote that Dan Brown said history is always written by the winners. In that case Columbus has made all those achievments, but has hidden all the wrongs he had done. Columbus has brought