Morgan Finley
American Lit
Burden
October 9, 2014
Christopher Columbus Who was Christopher Columbus? Christopher Columbus was an Italian-born explorer and navigator that was born in 1451 in Genoa, Italy, but died in 1506. Due to the lack of education as a child, he didn’t learn how to read or write until he was an adult. Later, he studied navigation, astronomy, cartography, and mathematics in Lisbon. It seems to be a cultural thing of Genoa since many of the Genoese boys went to sea and voyaged in the Mediterranean, including Christopher. He explored to various countries, but North America “The Americas” holds the most weight of who he is. Christopher Columbus is mostly famous for being credited with discovering the Americas. It is said to be that his explorations paved the way for the colonization and exploration of certain areas. Reading information as such, created one big question I’ve failed to find an answer for. How can Christopher Columbus be the first to discover the Americas, if there were people living there when he arrived? That means that the original “founder” of the Americas was most likely living in the Americas. I did come to one accurate conclusion of what Christopher Columbus was famous
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They saw Columbus as divine/spiritual power. After the Native Americans rejected Columbus, he told them he would take the sun if they didn’t obey. Columbus was aware there was an eclipse the next day, so some of the natives thought of him as a “God”. Although the Native Americans were a little slow on seeing how evil Columbus was, they were actually smart people. They taught Columbus survival skills, equipped to handle diverse habitats and climates, knew agriculture such as corn, potatoes, peppers, and spices, spoke numerous languages, had varied belief systems, and possessed tobacco. The Natives saw Columbus as allies against old enemies, and believed to have rebelled against him until help from Spain