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Sep 1, 2020 · Five Myths About Columbus. Outrageous claims about Columbus need to be tempered by a sober look at the historical record. by Robert Royal 9/1/2020. A painting depicts Christopher Columbus and shipmates landing at sunrise Oct. 12, 1492, on the island he named San Salvador. The Disembarkation of Christopher Columbus with Companions on Three ...
Oct 8, 2015 · Opinion. Five myths about Christopher Columbus. By Kris Lane. October 8, 2015 at 4:03 p.m. EDT. Christopher Columbus wasn't Italian? Kris Lane, professor of colonial Latin American...
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- On the way—Christopher Columbus stole a sailor’s reward. After obtaining funding for his explorations to reach Asia from the seizure and sale of properties from Spanish Jews and Muslims by order of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, Columbus headed out to explore a new world with money and ships.
- Columbus never landed on American soil — not in 1492, not ever. We’re not talking about the Leif Ericson Viking explorer story. We mean Columbus didn’t land on the higher 48—ever.
- Columbus painted a horrible picture of peaceful Natives. When Columbus first saw the Native Arawaks that came to greet him and his crew he spoke with a peaceful and admiring tone.
- Columbus’ men were rapists and murderers. On Columbus’s first trip to the Caribbean, he later returned to Spain and left behind 39 men who went ahead and helped themselves to Native women.
Oct 5, 2020 · 5 Myths About Christopher Columbus. Christopher Wanjek Live Science October 5, 2020. 1. Columbus set out to prove the world was round. If he did, he was about 2,000 years too late. Ancient Greek mathematicians had already proven that the Earth was round, not flat. Pythagoras in the sixth century B.C.E. was one of the originators of the idea.
Oct 2, 2018 · Ahead of the now controversial holiday Columbus Day, it is worthwhile to examine the myths and mysteries surrounding that much vaunted explorer who in fourteen hundred and ninety-two went and sailed the ocean blue: Christopher Columbus.
Oct 5, 2012 · 1. Columbus didn’t set out to prove the earth was round. The Real Story of Columbus. Forget those myths perpetuated by everyone from Washington Irving to Bugs Bunny. There was no need for...
Oct 10, 2011 · Guest host Tony Cox speaks with historian William Fowler to set the record straight on some of the popular myths surrounding Christopher Columbus and his voyage.