No one knows for sure how many people he had killed. Plus he stole all the lands in North, South, and Central America as well as all those Caribbean islands. What person in human history did as much evil as Columbus did?
shareHis voyages led eventually to the establishment of the United States of America, the leading force for good in the world for more than a century (in spite of the lies your ignorant teachers and professors have told you). So it more than balances out.
shareYes, his voyages did start the establishment of more white men coming to kill and steal this land. Sounds like pure evil to me
shareHook, line and sinker. Welcome to the DNC. You do know that some of those poor, "peaceful" natives that he killed we active BIG TIME in human sacrifice, beheadings, slavery and mass genocide, right?
shareI never heard of any such stories. Any documented evidence or did FOX news tell you this?
shareGet off your lazy ass and do some fact finding.
shareYou've never heard that the Aztecs and Maya practiced human sacrifice, and on a very large scale at that? Really?
shareSounds like fake news. The Aztecs and mayas were peaceful people until they were conquered and slaughtered by the white man
shareSounds like you're trolling. But just in case you're not:
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/07/05/535613480/aztec-tower-of-skulls-reveals-women-children-were-sacrificed
Assuming this question is serious, and not trolling...
Columbus never set foot in North America so how did he steal it exactly? As for the conquest of central and south America, thank Hernán Cortés and Francisco Pizarro for that, not Christopher Columbus.
And as for the question "what person in human history did as much evil as Columbus did?" Gee... I don't know, um... Hitler! Duh! And Mao. And Stalin. The list is endless. Genghis Khan, during the course of conquering the largest contiguous land empire in human history during the 12th century is estimated to have killed at least 4 million and perhaps as many as 60 million people. This is orders of magnitude more people than were ever killed by Spanish and English settlers in the New World combined during four centuries of settlement -- most of the native population that died in the Americas were not deliberately killed, they died from Old World diseases to which they had no immunity. Genghis Khan, on the other hand, may have directly slaughtered over a tenth of the world's entire population.
Again, assuming this question is serious, not trolling, it reveals such an incredible ignorance of basic historical facts it is hard to take seriously.
I doubt any single person was as evil as Columbus, no. Several scholars have concluded he is likely the 4th antiChrist, joining Hitler, Bonaparte and Trump. In terms of death, destruction and hatred, Columbus stands alone.
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