The fact is however that Columbus was no more the discoverer of America than Pocahontas was the discoverer of Great Britain. Native Americans had built great civilizations with many millions of people long before Columbus wandered lost into the Caribbean. Columbus never set foot on North America, nor did he open it to European trade. Scandinavian Vikings already had settlements here in the eleventh century. The first European explorer to thoroughly document his visit to North America was the Italian explorer Giovanni Caboto, who sailed for King Henry VII of England and became kn

On the island of Espanola, under Columbus's governorship, 50,000 native people died within a

The beliefs that Columbus discovered America and that he proved the world was round are two common misconceptions (“Christopher Columbus“ 1998). These two things are small compared to what happened after Columbus reached America. Christopher Columbus opened the Atlantic slave trade and launched one of the greatest waves of genocide known in history.

Bartolome De Las Casas, a skilled politician, wrote a passionate tract called "A Brief Account of the Devastation of the Indies." In graphic and sometimes exaggerated detail, he recounted Spanish cruelties to the Indians, describing, in one instance, how Spaniards hanged natives in

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