The Importance Of Christopher Columbus

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When your teacher says,”Students, no school on Monday. It’s Columbus Day!”, what do you think of? Do you think, “Yay! No school,” or “We’re thankful for the man who found out America?” When you start thinking about it, who is Christopher Columbus? Had he really stepped foot in America? Is he really who the legends say he is? Did he really exist? These questions we can never find the truth too; even if we have all the fossils in the world, we were never in history, so we’ll never know. But one question people debate on: Whether to celebrate Columbus Day or to let it exist. Columbus was part of history, but was he important? In my opinion, Christopher Columbus shouldn’t be celebrated and have a day to commemorate him. Christopher Columbus is …show more content…

For example, he was funded money to go find a route to Asia. As it states in the paragraph, Fateful Voyages, Columbus was to voyage to west India to make trades and discover gold/silver. If he was reliable, Columbus would’ve miscalculated the distance and be off by 9,000 miles, as it states in the article. You wouldn’t want a explorer who can even do common math. You wouldn’t like an explorer who doesn’t know what and where he is going. Miscalculating the route to Europe and Asia to making it to Europe and South America. It’s even more surprising that they sent him on three & more voyages even though he probably went the wrong direction …show more content…

“On my arrival, I had taken some Indians by force from the first island that I came to, in order that they might learn our language, and communicate to us what they knew about the country;” it quotes in “A Letter From Columbus.” This conveys how Columbus wanted to make the Natives into his slaves. Also in the article, “Columbus:Intrepid Explorer or accidental navigator?”, in states that when Columbus and the Europeans came to the Natives, they brought upon them diseases. One of such is the Black Death. The Black Death is the medieval black plague that ravaged Europe and killed a third of its population. It was due to the plague which is caused by a bacterium (Yersinia pestis) transmitted to humans from infected rats by the oriental rat flea. Because of this, Columbus is a villain to many. Not only that, but Columbus isn't the only explorer. Why can't the other thousand of explorers get a day to celebrate them? Why is there no Native Americans day?Why should a guy who didn't step foot on the 50 states get credit for what he didn't

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