1-Christopher Columbus was sent on his voyage by a government that had just thrown off the last vestiges of seven centuries of foreign rule. Of course, that government's response to retaking their own land also included expelling the country's Jews. History doesn't divide neatly.
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3-Understanding the past requires adjusting to a *lot* of ways in which people saw & understood things differently than we do. That doesn't mean we never judge them for doing things that were mistaken or evil. But it asks us not to oversimplify.
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4-Columbus' great virtue was his brave, exploring spirit. His great accomplishment was that he led the way to the whole history, not only of the USA, but of all of the Americas - all the good, all the bad. He is more properly judged for his individual sins.
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The Spanish were less than a hundred years from massacring towns full of Dutch women and children in the Eighty Years' War
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dude. show your work.
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I think pretty much everyone in the 15th century sucked. And really, 21st century too. People are the worst people yet.
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(Myself included)
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