There are many myths when it comes to the voyages made by “explorer” Christopher Columbus. Some suggest that Columbus discovered America, discredited the flat Earth theory, and most people believe that Christopher Columbus was a great and valiant leader. These myths are falsified events embedded in the nationalism of America. Over many years, Americans have believed in these built up assumptions, even after they have been proven incorrect by many credited historians. In America, history classrooms still continue to enforce the idea that "Columbus discovered America." There has been proof that Christopher Columbus was a man that solely set out to gain fame and fortune from his voyages to find islands off of "Cathay," or what he believed to be Cathay, which is modern day China. The many discrepancies in his …show more content…
Columbus wrote two letters while on his first voyage, and both contradict themselves within each document. The first letter written by Columbus is to his friend Louis. This letter suggests that it took him thirty-three days to reach a mainland and that the inhabitants of the island "willingly accepts the sovereignty of Spain without opposition.” While later on in the same letter he writes that it took him twenty-eight days and that the inhabitants all believed that Columbus has descended from heaven. This argument is entirely false since a group of native people would probably not know what heaven is since it is a Christian concept. Columbus then continues his inaccuracies with identifying one of the natives as being "the Great Khan." This was a title in the Mongol nomadic tribe, not a Chinese title, which contradicts his beliefs for being along the coast of Cathay. This statement on the Mongol’s though does suggest that he had studied cultures prevalent in Asia but obviously now we know he was not in China, so this statement is