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Christopher Columbus was a dick
Posted on 7/17/22 at 8:21 pm
Posted on 7/17/22 at 8:21 pm
Or maybe a fanook?
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“They have no iron. Their spears are made of cane…They would make fine servants … With 50 men, we could subjugate them and make them do whatever we want.”
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On his way back from his first voyage he penned a letter to “Their Catholic Highnesses” Ferdinand and Isabella, promising “as much gold as they want …spices and cotton, as much as their Highnesses shall command … and slaves, as many as they shall order, who will be idolators.”
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Posted on 7/17/22 at 8:22 pm to Newrow
What’s a fanook
Posted on 7/17/22 at 8:22 pm to Newrow
It was a different time. /story
Posted on 7/17/22 at 8:23 pm to Newrow
He was a man of his time - nothing more, nothing less.
Posted on 7/17/22 at 8:24 pm to Newrow
Columbus was such a shitty explorer that when Amerigo Vespucci showed up in 1493, he immeditately understood that Columbus had not landed on the East Indies.
Posted on 7/17/22 at 8:25 pm to p&g
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What’s a fanook
If you to have ask…
This post was edited on 7/17/22 at 8:31 pm
Posted on 7/17/22 at 8:26 pm to Newrow
The Spaniards (I know Columbus was Italian but he was working for Spain) who conquered the New World were a motley assortment of petty and not so petty criminals, social climbers looking for a way up, shysters on the make, illegitimate offspring of nobility and mercenaries in search of the next war. They were real pieces of work, but that's par for the course for an endeavour like this.
Posted on 7/17/22 at 8:26 pm to Newrow
I blame most of my problems on the curse of a familial legacy that goes back 600 years
Posted on 7/17/22 at 8:27 pm to Newrow
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Newrow
Super edgy and original take bruh.
Posted on 7/17/22 at 8:27 pm to Newrow
I'm still glad he came over
Posted on 7/17/22 at 8:29 pm to Hester Carries
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Super edgy and original take bruh.
Thanks baw
Posted on 7/17/22 at 8:29 pm to mtntiger
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He was a man of his time - nothing more, nothing less.
And yet the very men of his time found his tactics so brutal that they recommended his removal from office as the Governor of the Indies.
Posted on 7/17/22 at 8:29 pm to mtntiger
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He was a man of his time - nothing more, nothing less.
Columbus’s conduct in the Caribbean was controversial even in his own time among his contemporaries.
Posted on 7/17/22 at 8:29 pm to Newrow
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and slaves, as many as they shall order, who will be idolators.”
This is an important point. If they had been Christians, the Spaniards would have been obliged to treat them humanely. Since they were heathens, the Spaniards were under no such obligation. That's why there was quite a bit of tension between the Conquistadores and the Catholic missionaries who followed after them.
Posted on 7/17/22 at 8:30 pm to Newrow
He wasn’t wrong.
Posted on 7/17/22 at 8:30 pm to Newrow
He went and surveyed and found a land they could conquer and exploit
It’s been done since the dawn of time
It’s been done since the dawn of time
Posted on 7/17/22 at 8:31 pm to Newrow
Posted on 7/17/22 at 8:31 pm to p&g
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What’s a fanook
Tell me you've never watched The Sopranos without ever telling me you've never watched The Sopranos.
Posted on 7/17/22 at 8:32 pm to Rebel
quote:Had we taken his advice to taken then slaves from Mexico we wouldn't have a drug problem in America
He wasn’t wrong.
Posted on 7/17/22 at 8:34 pm to Newrow
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