Cristoforo Colombo

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Cybermat47

520th anniversary of a guy arriving in a place that a Greenlander found hundreds of years before

I also did a timeline of Leif Erikson's voyages. The problem is that the Norwegian/Iceland/Greenland folks didn't stay. It's like saying the Wright Brothers weren't really the first to fly. They weren't, but they were the first to repeat the experiment and show how it should be done. No, Columbus wasn't the first, but he was the one who made it stick and showed the rest of the world how to do it.

and said guy going around chopping of Native's hands when they said "I don't want to be christian"

Do you have any evidence for that claim? Surviving records indicate that Columbus tried to stop the abuse of the natives, and it was the Hidalgos who perpetrated it. If you don't know who they were I'll gladly explain.