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Isabell Schimmel. | Certified Educator. Share Cite. There are two different ways to answer this question. First, we can say that Christopher Columbus had a huge impact on today’s world. It was...
Even today, typical histories of America tend to consider the moment of Columbus’s landing on October 12, 1492, to be a significant turning point. Some continue to consider Columbus a heroic explorer, while others regard him as a monster and accuse him of deliberate genocide.
Oct 14, 2013 · October 14, 201310:15 AM ET. By. Lakshmi Gandhi. Enlarge this image. Though he sailed in 1492, Christopher Columbus was not widely known among Americans until the mid-1700s. Spencer Arnold/Getty...
Oct 9, 2023 · Italian explorer Christopher Columbus discovered the “New World” of the Americas on a 1492 expedition. Learn about his landing spot, route, ships, and more.
- Seeing Both The Good and The Bad
- A Sensible, Fair and Just Approach
- Some Admirable Virtues
Admittedly he was not perfect (as is true of all of us in varying degrees). His enterprise had both happy and unhappy results (as do most enterprises in varying degrees), and good and bad consequences followed on both sides of the Atlantic. (For example, the evidence is that unfamiliar disease was unintentionally transmitted in both directions, tho...
Columbus was a complex man of a distant age, an age which–on both sides of the Atlantic–had many different values from those we hold today, some of which–again, on both sides of the Atlantic–would be very abhorrent to us now. It is only right to try to understand both him and those of his age–again, those on both sides of the Atlantic–in the contex...
An imperfect man, Christopher Columbus had a number of admirable virtues which played a key role in his accomplishing one of the singularly pivotal feats in history which in fact had a number of good outcomes, as well as some bad ones. It is the outcomes that draw our attention to him; but it is the feat and the virtues that contributed to it for w...
Claudia Rogers | Published in History Today Volume 67 Issue 8 August 2017 Christopher Columbus and his crew arrived on the shores of Guanahani, an island in the Bahamas, on 12 October 1492. While Columbus was convinced that he had made landfall in Asia, he had unwittingly ‘discovered’ the New World.
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Oct 9, 2017 · The American Revolution created the Columbus most of us over the age of 30 learned in grade school. Prior to the late 18th century, he was a historical footnote with no connection to the 13 ...
