Christopher Columbus was an incompetent buffoon who never even set foot in America. In his time it was already common knowledge that the Earth was round. It took untill 1492 for people to sail the ocean blue because back then they didnt know the Americas were existed so navigators thought there was no way a ship could make it all the way from Europe to Asia. Columbus was terrible at math, instead of trusting the experts he believed the Earth was thousands of miles smaller than it actually was and was shaped like a pear. He said that he could travel from Europe to India in a matter of days. It took years to convience the king and queen that his plan didn't suck but competion in the spice trade was getting intense, so Ferdinand and Isabella were …show more content…
But even the countries he did set foot in had a quater-million taino people that lived there already. Columbus miststook the taino people for indians many times. The Taino treated Columbus and his crew with the utmost hospitality. Columbus repaid their kindness by returning seventeen ships and twelve-hundred men so he could ensleve the taino and steal their gold, there was only one problem they didnt have any gold and this infuriated Columbus and soon he and his crew began to slaughter them. Columbus's regims was so senselessly brutal that by 1542 theTaino population on the island had fallen to two hundred. And that's all he did, he slaughtered a bunch of innocent people around the Carribean and dies thinking he had made it to India. For centuries Columbus was a historical footnote but that changed in 1828 when Washington Irving, the author of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and other tales, grouped the first english-language biography of Colunbus. Irving thought the truth wouldnt sell copies, he wrote that Columbus was a genuis and proved the Earth was round and discovered