Talk:Christobal Colon/@comment-95.17.187.22-20121118105951

This article is complete Bullshit. Christopher Columbus does not have any historical reords until he was sixteen which originated in Spain. His Italian was on par with a Second- Year American High school student's Spanish. Columbus is just a Romanicized verzion of his real name, Cristobal Colon. He was well off, otherwise then he would have never gotten an audience with the Monarchy. Sailors, some of the most uneducated people at the time had known for years that the Earth was not flat by the simple observation of ships on the horizon. China had already had voyages to the New World, landing in California, but did not advance due to the Rocky Mountains. They had sent maps to Euriope, and the Scandanavians had been there 400 years before, so people already knew of the land mass there. Colon made his fist voyage in two months with a on month stopover in the Canary Islands to claim them for Spain. He actually landed in the Carribean, and was supposed to scout for gold and other wealth. one of his famous quotes describing the natives and how they looked usually cuts off before he talks about how easy it would be to enslave them, which he did. His later voyages resulted in the first African slaves being brought to the Americas, and to set up trade routes. In short, Colon was a Conquistador and has been disorted to the point of being unrecognizable. Fix the article.