Posted: 10/25/2012 5:16:42 PM EDT
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College taught me to hate him High School tried to teach me to hate him. ,but I join the KofC  That must be something new Columbus was slways praised in high school. He gets a bad wrap now for being white and having a cold. And of course there was that whole mass murder thing.... |
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He was actually a dumb-ass. Mis-estimated the size of the earth. Had there not been a continent here, and would have had to sail all the way to India in an ocean, and they would have all died.
I think he knew what he was doing, and expected another land before India. That was just his sales pitch to get the funds to sail. If you were an explorer wanting to get money for a voyage, would you try to convince a king there was an unknown land somewhere out there, or would you tell him he could cut in on some business by establishing another trade route to a rich land (India)? |
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: . . . cossed the ocean blue. ESL? Sorry, not up on abbreviations. ESL = English as Second Language? I just noticed the spelling error. Crossed, not cossed. I just thought it was appropriate for post # 1492. If you wanted more thread views, you could have made it about the end of the reconquista and the expulsion of Muslims from Spain. |
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Quoted: Could be.Quoted: He was actually a dumb-ass. Mis-estimated the size of the earth. Had there not been a continent here, and would have had to sail all the way to India in an ocean, and they would have all died. I think he knew what he was doing, and expected another land before India. That was just his sales pitch to get the funds to sail. If you were an explorer wanting to get money for a voyage, would you try to convince a king there was an unknown land somewhere out there, or would you tell him he could cut in on some business by establishing another trade route to a rich land (India)? |