Christopher Columbus Benefits

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I believe that we have over hyped and gave Christopher Columbus much more credit than he deserves. Christopher Columbus is not a hero; he did not really do anything but kill hundreds of thousands of people. Despite popular belief, Christopher Columbus did not discover America, he did not even know he was in American, and how can you discover a place that is already populated by entire civilizations. He believed that he was in India. He was not the first European in America either. Moreover, when he “discovered” America he proceeded to raid it of everything it had and exterminate its people. In first letter about his voyage he says “And there I found very many islands filled with people innumerable, and of them all I have taken possessions