Who Is Christopher Columbus Good Or Evil

1529 Words4 Pages

There are two different sides to this man’s story. He was both a good man and an evil one. Who is this man that I am talking about? Everyone in the world knows this man as Christopher Columbus. The things he did are even being talked about today! You may think you know everything about him, but I bet you don’t. Actually, I bet you don’t know much about him. For this paper, I chose Christopher Columbus and here is what I learned. Christopher Columbus in a very small town known as Genoa, Italy on October 31, 1431 . Ok, his name wasn’t actually Christopher Columbus it is just easier to say than his actual name to us. His actual name was Christoforo Columbo. His dad Domenico had the only job he could get as a wool merchant. And his mom was known …show more content…

People today tell us that the Tainos were the ones who did the bad stuff, but it was Christopher Columbus and his men. Columbus was being rude and mean to the Tainos, and so were the people helping him. The Tainos were trying to protect themselves and killed some of his men. When Christopher Columbus found out about what happened, he did something worse that kill the Tainos, he cut off their noses and their ears. In my opinion that is just disgusting. Why would anyone want to do something that horrible? He did a lot of terrible things to the Tainos, and stole fifteen thousand of them. All of the Tainos that he stole, he took them back to Spain and used them as slaves. As payback for what he did, the Tainos gave him fool’s gold. Christopher Columbus went on two other voyages, and on the third one he got stranded and had to be rescued. Even though he got stranded, he still decided to finish his journey, and go the rest of the way. He did things even worse than before on his third voyage. The things he did were so bad that Spain went to America, brought him back in chains, and threw him in prison. The funny thing is when he was in jail, he dressed in a brown robe, acted like a monk, and did nothing but complain. Depending on who you are depends are if you will say if this was good or bad news. They let him out of jail after only four

Open Document