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Did you actually have a point or some sort of refutal? Not sure how you stand on or what you are trying to contribute.
My point is quoting a comic strip that seeks to revise history is not very credible. And people revise history all the time but that doesn't necessarily make it more accurate.
Well maybe you should get your history from someplace other than a comic strip.
Historians continually revise their stories and many do it with an agenda. Most cannot even agree on what happened 50 years ago, much less 500 years ago.
In the end, the victors write the history books and it's up to the vanquished to make corrections.
Perhaps you should read Colon's own diary, in its original language (Spanish), which is readily available on the internet. It's pretty clear what he did, even though he glazes over a lot of the massacres in his book. He was obsessed with gold and would stop at nothing to get it - he mentions gold on virtually every single page of the diary.
Bartolomé de las Casas also has a diary - Una breve historia de la destrucción de las Indias. A brutal retelling of what he witnessed as the Spanish pillaged the Americas. There are also historical documents from his court procedings at Valladolid, Spain around 1550 or so, in which he pleads with the Spanish crown to leave the Americans alone.
My point is quoting a comic strip that seeks to revise history is not very credible. And people revise history all the time but that doesn't necessarily make it more accurate.
So your whole argument is " can't trust anyone". Well thanks for that input...
Perhaps you should read Colon's own diary, in its original language (Spanish), which is readily available on the internet. It's pretty clear what he did, even though he glazes over a lot of the massacres in his book. He was obsessed with gold and would stop at nothing to get it - he mentions gold on virtually every single page of the diary.
Bartolomé de las Casas also has a diary - Una breve historia de la destrucción de las Indias. A brutal retelling of what he witnessed as the Spanish pillaged the Americas. There are also historical documents from his court procedings at Valladolid, Spain around 1550 or so, in which he pleads with the Spanish crown to leave the Americans alone.
It's pointless.
This all propaganda and rewriting history for socialist or something.
Columbus was a good honest man who found a new continent before anyone else.
He never oppresses, tortured, enslaves or killed anyone for gold, no matter what evidence shows this.....
I enjoy a good holiday, but Columbus day seems pointless to me. I too think the Vikings (or maybe the Irish) discovered N. America first. They apparently had colonies in Greenland by 1000 AD.
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