Most people know Christopher Columbus as the man who discovered the America's but was all he ever did good? Many people also don't know the bad side to Columbus and due to his historic discoveries people often overlook what he did to the Native Americans. Columbus is both a hero and a villain but he is a hero to a greater extent.
Columbus was very important in the discovery of the America's despite that it was by accident. This would soon lead to many people to travel and colonize the America's. He was a great explorer, overconfident and cruel, but still a hero. He helped begin the movement to the America's when Britain was in dire need and when people talk about Columbus he should be remembered as a brilliant explorer who changed the course of history as we knew it. On the villain side of Columbus, once he arrived in the America's he immediately acted like no one else was living there. He disregarded the Natives, took advantage of their land and killed them in mass numbers. Although he treated them so brutally, Columbus was only trying to do what was best for his home country and all of Europe. Columbus may have killed and mistreated natives but to no extent that other Spanish conquistadors did like Cortez and Pizzaro. Despite mistreating and killing the natives, Columbus made a groundbreaking discovery that changed the course of World History making him a Hero.
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