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re: Christopher Columbus is a hero.
Posted on 10/9/17 at 11:12 am to Numberwang
Posted on 10/9/17 at 11:12 am to Numberwang
The great Chinese fleet did some impressive exploration.
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Posted on 10/9/17 at 11:21 am to Lima Whiskey
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The great Chinese fleet did some impressive exploration.
As did the Vikings.
The Chinese are kind of a different beast in these discussions - depending on the period in history, they were either very inward-looking or very probing, vacillating back and forth and back and forth depending on the emperor and regime.
As for Columbus, my understanding is that he was personally more concerned with proselytizing than economic or political matters. And the Portuguese had founded a robust African slave trade more than sixty years before he landed in the Western hemisphere. It wasn't much of a logical and economic leap from conquering new lands to importing an existing slave trade from there.
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