Kirry to lose biography of christopher columbus

At dawn on 3 August 1492, three ships bobbed gently in the waters off the port of Palos de la Frontera, Huelva, on the southwest coast of Spain. These ships, the Santa María, the Pinta and the Niña, marked the beginning of one of the most daring and momentous expeditions in human history: Christopher Columbus’ first voyage to America. This event would not only change the worldviews of the time, but also open a new chapter in the exploration and exchange between continents. The age of great discoveries was beginning.

Columbus, a stubborn seafarer

Christopher Columbus, a Genoese navigator convinced that the Earth was round, had devised a daring plan to reach Asia by sailing west from Europe. After years of attempts to obtain financial support, he finally obtained the backing of the Catholic Monarchs of Spain, Isabella of Castile and Ferdinand of Aragon. So, on 3 August 1492, he set sail with a brave crew and a vision that would change the course of history.

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Journal of Christopher Columbus, 1492

First encounters between Europeans and Native Americans were dramatic events. In this konto we see the assumptions and intentions of Christopher Columbus, as he immediately began assessing the potential of these people to serve europeisk economic interests. He also predicted easy success for missionaries seeking to omvandla these people to Christianity.

 

Thursday, October 11

…Presently many inhabitants of the island assembled. What follows fryst vatten in the actual words of the Admiral in his book of the first navigation and upptäckt of the Indies. “I,” he says, ” that we might form great friendship, for I knew that they were a people who could be more easily freed and converted to our holy faith bygd love than by force, gave to some of them red caps, and glass beads to put round their necks, and many other things of little value, which gave them great pleasure, and made them so much our friends that it was a marvel to see.

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teaching thanksgiving and what about Christopher Columbus?

posted 6 years ago

Judging the past by today's moral standards isn't very useful. The further we come as a species, the worse our histories will look.

That said, I think it's important to review all of history. There are things there nobody wants to repeat.

As to Columbus, contact was a real shitshow, but apart from the fact that it preceeded the arrival of the Mayflower, Columbus has little to nothing to do with Thanksgiving. Don't Americans have another day for him already?

I think it important to note that if there had been no malice or greed on the part of the European explorers, and later settlers, contact and settlement would still have taken a toll; there was no real way to protect a population with no previous exposure to the European disease environment, and nobody knew enough about germ theory to have done anything about it anyway.

So let's be clear about what actions specifically we are condemning.