Interesting...but flawed. Intentionally, I suspect.
Ignores the fact that Columbus was delayed from making his second voyage while Spanish, Portuguese and Papal diplomats wrangled over how to divvy up the new world. He did not sail until September, 1493 and only after Pope Alexander VI issued a series of bulls which confirmed Spanish rights in the Americas and Portuguese rights in Africa. Alexander VI also extended an earlier finding that non-christian indigenous peoples could be enslaved.
Columbus may or may not have been intent on exploring for his second voyage.... but the people putting up the money had a whole different idea.
I notice that pope frank is in no hurry to retract the Inter Caetera bulls issued by Alex VI while at the same time proclaiming a genocidal shit like Junipero Serra a "saint."
The Indians noticed, too.... but they are always whining about something.
Ignores the fact that Columbus was delayed from making his second voyage while Spanish, Portuguese and Papal diplomats wrangled over how to divvy up the new world. He did not sail until September, 1493 and only after Pope Alexander VI issued a series of bulls which confirmed Spanish rights in the Americas and Portuguese rights in Africa. Alexander VI also extended an earlier finding that non-christian indigenous peoples could be enslaved.
Columbus may or may not have been intent on exploring for his second voyage.... but the people putting up the money had a whole different idea.
I notice that pope frank is in no hurry to retract the Inter Caetera bulls issued by Alex VI while at the same time proclaiming a genocidal shit like Junipero Serra a "saint."
The Indians noticed, too.... but they are always whining about something.
