Columbus Blog

I believe that Andrew Jackson relates to Christopher Columbus because, much like Columbus he discriminated against native people of the Americas.


I believe that Christopher Columbus should be seen more as a villain than a hero. First off he never discovered North America himself. In fact the first person who supposedly came North America, besides the natives, was Leif Erickson who discovered it 500 years prior to Columbus. Columbus only ever traveled to South America and islands such as the Bahamas and the Dominican Republic. Besides all of that the biggest reason Columbus shouldn't be seen as a hero is that he enslaved and mutilated Native people. He forced the natives into slavery and if they didn't collect enough gold, a part of which he kept himself, he would punish them by taking one of their limbs or by killing them. Between his brutal punishments and the Europeans highly infectious diseases, within decades the natives population was decimated. When King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain found out about his mistreatment of the Natives, he was chained up, brought back to Spain and arrested.