Well he was responsible for creating an environment that was to later become the United states of America. He brought the New world to European attention. And European the masses fought, conquered, explored and died to create this nation. I don't believe in collective guilt that is being sold to our children. He did what no one else before him accomplished (Okay so Lieff Erikson did it a few hundred years sooner, but failed to capitalize on it)
He was still an incredible explorer doing at the time what was unknown, I mean the earth was flat he could have fallen off!
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