Why Did I Hate Christopher Columbus?

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I hate Christopher Columbus
In school as early as first grade you are taught the person who first discovered america was Christopher Columbus the spanish explorer who eventually led to the founding of america. This is sally taught around columbus day and teachers make a big deal about it, but there has never been a man in history who has been more of a liar than him.
First we need some background to fully understand this man's liying self. Columbus goal in his journey was to find a faster water route to asia for Spain so they could have more trade routes to get spices. He had wrongly predicted that asia was very close to spain and told his case to Portugal who sent him off in shame and to spain who begrudgingly accepted his offer. He took of on his trip with his crew with high hopes of becoming rich men in three months time. On his trip it took them so long to get there that columbus was lying to his men through almost the entire journey about how fast they had been going. He was about to be killed by his crew when they finally saw the shores of land again. …show more content…
He said that is was asia and led his men off the ship and started to look for treasures. He had as many of your history teachers had said “had discovered america!” but as he walked off the ship he saw many people there and he called them indians (because he thought he was in India, maybe he had a mental ailment though…) but how as many of you are now thinking did he “discover America” well he didn’t. The definition of discover is to “gain knowledge of (something previously unseen or unknown)” (dictionary.com) and how can you find something unknown if people groups have entire civilizations formed on this “new land”? Well to that question your teacher probably stated “Well he was the first European to reach the

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