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Pros And Cons Of Christopher Columbus

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Christopher Columbus is not worthy of a recognition of a national holiday. Columbus is not worthy of a national holiday because he threatened and killed the Indians. For example, he claimed the Indians land as his own. Also he murdered the Indians and forced them into hard labor. Also to test how sharp his swords were he cut pieces off the Indians. Another horrible thing he did was force them into slavery. 3 million Native Americans perished through the torture along with war. Last he took their land and turned it into colonies. So Columbus basically took the Indians land and ran them all the back to the west side of the country. Also the war killed 3 million people, which was about 7% of their whole population and he could’ve handled meeting
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