Why Is Christopher Columbus Wrong

Christopher Columbus is a European man sent by Spanish King Ferdinand and Queen Isabelle to find a new route to the Indies. In his short amount of time with the King and Queen he explains all he plans to do to bring them more power and wealth. Agreeing to his ideas they fund Columbus and he sets sail. Columbus is widely revered and celebrated as the man who discovered America when he never actually set foot on North America. He even has his own holiday. Yet, when Columbus arrived in the Bahamas he described the innumerable amount of people already inhabiting the islands. Can he discover something that has already been found? A better suited term would be encounter, emphasizing how the discovery was a mutual meeting. When looking at the way Columbus was and how he handled the indigenous people, he was abusive, racially discriminating, and completely ignoring of their rights. However, in the fifteenth century such things like human rights and equality was nonexistent concepts and was the way of the world. Columbus clearly wasn’t argued, at least not by the people that matter, on the right to see these islands and these people and claim them for Spain whether they liked it or not. …show more content…
He saw the New World and painted it in a picture of nice people to become slaves, healthy land, spices for the taking, and loads of gold. Columbus was fearless and dedicated and refused to let anyone or anything, such as the Bahamas, to get in the way of his goals. He basically tells his illustrious King and Queen that he has done the impossible and one would be foolish not to continue to support him and his cause. While he did not land where he thought he had, Columbus and his voyages continued to encourage the exploration of the New World for centuries to