(August 30, 2015 at 1:19 pm)abaris Wrote: Columbus was one of the so called explorers of the time. His original intent was to find a new route to India and it's trading facilities by sailing west. So, yes, they new that the world was round.Setting foot on the American continent, was nothing but an accident. The spanish crown would have never financed an expedition into the blue. Even more so, since the so called reconquista just came to a close.Being good Catholics the Spanish just used the First Commandment as their guiding principle , Exodus 34:10-16. Of course it wasn't written as such at that time but they were forward thinkers.
Also, he was a saint compared to the shits that came after him. The so called conquistadores who utterly destroyed the native cultures within a short 40 years.
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Christopher Columbus was awful (but this other guy wasn't)
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