@@Kuovadis He shouldn't have to prove himself on every little thing, he's obviously done the research and you can't go correct people on stuff that you haven't looked into yourself. Simon is a great historian I don't care what you say. (And you obviously haven't looked into it because I have and he's not a good person.)
@@spencerdavies9389 So people didn't know until now? Which school did you attend? I think better get your money back. They turned you from a blank paper into lunatics.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding is that Columbus left approximately 40 men on one of the islands to start building a fort while he returned to Spain. This was an island that Columbus found largely by chance, as you might expect from a navigator who had never been in that part of the world before. Upon his return to Spain, he outfitted more ships and returned to the island where he had left the men only to find they had all been killed. Am I correct so far? If yes, then here's my problem. I'm having trouble reconciling the twin notions that Columbus was a poor navigator with the fact that he was able to return to the exact same spot where he left his men. Finding the island (by chance) the first time can be considered pure luck, but returning to that very same island a year or two later must require at least a modicum of nautical talent. What say you, UA-camrs?
😎And lightning does strike twice, happens all the time. So yeah, driven by prevailing winds and currents can get you to the same obscure little island twice. Can you say blind, dumb luck?
he used a sexton and travelled the 28th parrallel. Advanced thinking . The Author of this video is missing the point. Courage and determination underly any man who is the first to do something.
Noticed the "1945" thing. I had a chuckle at it and yeah, going by the sheer volume and quality of depth of the subject matter for this channel, its clearly understandable "bloopers" are gonna bloop. Deep respect to you Biographics, the crew and to Simon Whistler for his endearing, informative and beyond entertaining skill and style of presenting.
On the timeline & the 1945 thing. If the generally accepted voyage to "the New World" began in 1492, then even reversing the 9 and the 4 leaves us with 1495, which means he was first trying to convince Fernando and Isabel (La Catholica ) not Isabella, to make the trip in 1495 , and then had to wait 5&1/2 years for the approval, which would mean he would leave in1501, so the timeline is hopelessly jumbled. At 6:12 Christopher's brother is shown in a period portrait as Bartolomeo Colon, lending credence to several other accounts of Christopher's name actually being Colon, not Columbo of Genoa, but rather of Spain... Looking through several video's on Columbus there seems to be no lack of "historical" material, but also very many contradictions.
Not true. I love Simon's channels but I can't watch everything (I'm saying this only because I don't want to see starting to losen up the quality of the content ;)
@Nadine Smith what the hell are you talking about? Obviously there were natives in the Americas. That's how all the sailors contracted syphilis. Columbus is regarded as the first western European to arrive (and return).
@Nadine Smith There were no Indians on the American continent when Columbus landed. Only native peoples. India is in Asia. You seem to be struggling with rudimentary English. Maybe take a break from trolling for a while.
How about “we know for certain he was born in Genoa Italy..” “The languages he spoke were Spanish, Latin and Portuguese..” Funny how he was born in Italy, yet never actually spoke Italian..🤷♂️
@@andreizav7040 Maybe you don't understand English well enough... This is the full sentence which was said: "Still, he overcame his lack of formal education by teaching himself many valuable skills including mapmaking, functional mathematics and a range of languages, including Spanish, Latin and Portuguese." It does not say he doesn't speak Italian, it says that he lacked a formal education but basically self taught himself ADDITIONAL LANGUAGES including Spanish, Latin and Portuguese. That should be pretty obvious from this sentence. Let's say I'm born in Germany, and I learnt Italian on my own and spoke German as my native language. Would anyone say "He taught himself Italian and German" about me....? No. German would be my native language, like Italian was his.
The only “bad explorers” are the cowards who don’t dare to find. Columbus is the epitome of exploration and his “conman” ways are testament to his passion.
Columbus was a terrible person. But he was a spectacular adventurer. I've yet to find anyone who can make a true argument as to why Columbus didn't actually discover American without being intellectually disingenuous with their argument. Columbus' discovery has always been in the context of European history, which modern America is an extension of. He was an elitist slave trader, but so were the vast majority of figures from his time and before. Hardly makes him especially heinous.
To call him a bad explorer simply because he thought he was somewhere he wasn't is very ignorant and an oversimplification of the events. Today we rely on GPS and other fancy tools to guide ourselves across the seas of our planet. Back then, Columbus had to rely on dead reckoning and the stars to guide himself and his ships across an as yet unmapped ocean.
He must have known that he was not in Asia, as he started naming places left and right. When the Portuguese arrived in India, Malasia, Japan, etc. they didn't name a single place, only in Brasil, and later in Africa. He had to keep saying it was Asia untill he died, because no Asia, no pay, as per his contract with the kings.
I'd rather have an army. Well trained well equipped made up of citizens ready to defend society. I don't want my society armed. As society is full of idiots.
@@ispartacus1337 That comment is so disrespectful and paradoxical to ur name it's insane. The citizens are suppose to be the army idiot so you don't become ruled by an elite class who can afford to pay an army. DISARMING SOCIETY DOES NOT TAKE WEAPONS AWAY FROM CRIMINALS
Imagine being a German citizen towards the end of WWII. You think the war couldn't get any worse. Then suddenly.. you hear sirens. Look to the sky and see 3 giant flying ships the size of Laputa from Castle In The Sky heading towards Berlin.
Another interesting fact: amongst the reasons given to the rejection by the King of Portugal, was the fact that the Portuguese Kings were already aware of the existence of uncharted land to the West which was why Portugal, at the Treaty of Tordesillas, demanded an expansion on the west divisive line proposed by Pope Alexandre VI, so that it would encompass more of what is now the Northeast of Brasil. The King of Portugal knew it wasn't possible to reach India via the West because there was land there. So he told Colombo to bugger off. The Kings of Spain had no idea so they funded it. In retrospective though, that might have been a bad move by King João II of Portugal...
Why are they still spewing this b.s. about Colombus? By the time of his first voyage it was known that islands and a large land mass existed between Europe and Asia, that there was gold there, that the people there were not indians, Chinese or Asians. Colombus was aware of this, his intentions were never to reach Asia but to get to lands where gold could be obtained and where territories could be claimed (land occupied by the empires of Asia could not be claimed). A massive con job has been perpetuated, either by him or by historians, but more like by both.
By that time it was well known in educated circles that the earth was not flat and all, it was just the highly religious and illiterate population and lack of free access to books that perpetrated the idea of a flat earth and no landmass. It's funny they call Columbus' idea of a "round" earth revolutionary and still spread more misinformation when this channel is usually properly sourced and well researched. I think they dropped the ball with this one
@@curtisthomas2670 honestly it seems english speaking media has demonized Columbus and other Latin explorers and praise their own like James Cook and the rest, and modern works just repeat what they read in old sources and perpetuate those lies. Honestly pretty much all europeans (save maybe the Dutch who were a trading empire) just exploited any local population, extracted any riches they could find and slave traded the hell out of the colonies (you know...the transatlantic slave trade was fueled not only by Spain and Portugal)
I got into a heated argument with my 5th grade teacher about this ended up staying after school. About 2 weeks later she handed me a McDonalds coupon saying "keep this to yourself, but I believe you are right"
When I was in 5th grade they actually straight up told us the truth about him, everyone in the class was speechless because we thought of him as this ideal hero
at school they tried to teach us the made up story, until another kid put up his hand and asked " what about all the native's he was responsible for killing and stealing the land, " teacher stayed quiet for a couple seconds then started telling us the whole story
I've seen several mistakes here. 1)Is not sure where Colombus was really born 2)lots of historians think he married his first wife so he and his father in law could make money toguether 3)it is thought that father in law had the famous map of America/knew the currents to sail there,as Colombus ships got it right at the first attempt 4) only Castille's kingdom paid for the voyage. The gold went back to Isabella. 5) one of the charges Columbus faced was stealing from the crown, as he kept for himself lots of gold and pearls, and said nothing about it 6)slavery was forbidden, and one of the main chores in the continent was conversion to Christianity. The treatment of the natives was another cause of punishment by the Crown
Colon Spoke Portuguese! Actually, as being of Italian blood on Mother side, he also I believe had a father! Who was his father? And many of the "1st" World Sailors were Portuguese, Bartolomeu Dias, Vasco da Gama etc. By the way, if he really was raised up in Genova, why wasn't his1st Discovery Island called ("Neuva/New") Genova? Why did an Italian guy call it Cuba? Where does this name Cuba comes from? An earlier love? Italy? France?? Spain???
About the 6th one, he still killed a lot of natives and his actions, and cruelty towards them, was so bad, that even 15th century people were like "whoa dude chill"
Slavery was forbidden by the crown since slavery was only permitted as a spoil of war back then. Christopher Columbus kept trying to encourage a slave trade and sent a total of 2000 natives back through 5 transatlantic journeys against the monarchy's wishes.
@@feetgoaroundfullflapsC the few mistakes that have been made out of hundreds of videos can't count out the Internet to point of pointless BS though doh
The fact that he had to say he wasn't wicked, but was ignorant... says a lot! I had no idea of what actually took place with him and his crew. Thank you very much! It is very eye-opening.👍
@@richlee3777 he discovered the new world. it was probably top 5 most important things to ever happen so he should get praised for that. other than that many people back in the past like romans and Egyptians are praised to this day yet they were worse than Columbus
Thanks Simon & the crew for another great episode! Your vids actually make my day, I just love coming home from a crap day at work to a new Biographics episode
@@ispartacus1337 He was the leader of the those people, they very much killed, massacred the native in his knowledge, the blame goes on him, he doesn't have to personally kill someone to be responsible for their death, if it's the case, Hitler's kill tally would be single digit. Hundreds of slave whom dragged from their home who died because of rough treatment at the sea & after are down to him as well.
We shouldn't judge someone from the 15 century by our modern standards. Yes he took slaves and people died where he explored but people everywhere in the world took slaves at any chance they could get then and continued to do so for centuries after Columbus. And the deaths he caused are greatly overstated in this video. His 90 men didn't murder 125,000 people. The majority of native Americans died from disease that their bodies were not used to. And the amount of people that died is always greatly exaggerated in modern times. The Americas had between 2-8 million (few say 18 million) people living there when Columbus landed in America most historians say. Meaning both massive continents were mostly empty as it was with many histories saying the populations of the Americas were already dropping before Columbus arrived. And then the cause of the populations of the America's natives dying was not the fault of Columbus or anyone it was just that the native Americans could not deal with the diseases that had already taken place in the old world. There was just as much of a chance that there could have been diseases in the Americas that the old world could not cope with when brought back there. After the diseases ran their course through the Americas the native population then started to skyrocket as modern farming and the animals needed to do so were introduced to the Americas. Allowing enough food to be grown for the population of the Americas to finally start to increase after centuries of being stagnate. Bottom line, Columbus's greatest accomplishment of discovering America for the rest of the world is one of the biggest events in human history. And he rightfully should continue to be celebrated for bringing it's attention to the rest of the world.
That actual last paragraph is why Columbus is seen up until recent years as a great man and hero. Everything that has to do with the US (Even though he didn't actually discover that) historically has to be a romantic fairy tale of good conquering over evil, where everything that happened was done by good people, conquering evil or making great accomplishments. The fact is that for a lot of the time this just isn't true. It's propaganda, which Americans are taught in schools and all their lives until it is completely gospel. I think that from what you are writing you have been greatly subjected to it. I mean the fact that you are defending him by saying he landed in America. He didn't, he landed in the West Indies and the fact that you believe modern farming increased the native population? The global population didn't "skyrocket" until the `1800s' and by then the natives of the Americas were certainly not increasing in population. Stop trying to romanticise history!
Maybe in North America (which is funny since Columbus never set a foot there). In Latin America it used to be called "día de la Raza" or Race day (referencing a race of people) but now has been changed to a more proper "day of racial diversity" to emphasize the celebration of cultural diferences rather than conquest
@@waahaah861 honestly that's the fairiest video in english i have seen analyzing Colombo since it eliminates many myths and looks at the context of the time period. And pretty much says that any French, British or any sailor of the big European kingdoms would have done the same or worse in his position. And that he failed to control his men rather than order mass executions. He was a good sailor (if anything greedy) overwhelmed by having to actually lead something
Overall, this is a good video. But there is a glaring major error: The indigenous people on Hispanola (and Puerto Rico, aka Boriqua) were TAINO, not, Arawak.
Also, at the 16min10sec mark, the narrator says Columbus arrived back in Spain in "1446," which is before Columbus, who was sailing under "Colon," another omission from the video makers, was born. There are too many errors, significant ones, for me to give this a "good" evaluation. It was bad, due to the number of mistakes of fact.
No wonder he was a bad explorer, he got lost long enough to miss out on two world wars and the founding of American. I'm surprised Spain didn't ask where the hell he'd been all these years. JK
Gabaldon single-handedly captured more than ten times the number of prisoners taken by legendary Medal of Honor recipient, Sgt. Alvin C. York, in World War I. Despite this recommendation, Gabaldon was awarded a Silver Star Medal. Please do a boigraphics of him
@9.00 did I hear you say ‘toward end of ‘1945’ am had to pause and check thinking am l watching WW2 documentary? Nice biography tho as always I love your videos. Never gt bored since discovering this channel of biographics❤️
Flying Cabbage he’s considered a explorer because he never made it to the place he set out multiple time to get to. If you claimed that you get me to Jersey but ended up anywhere but I’d call you a shitty navigator too lol.
dinkyboss he was a good navigator though just the fact he got over the Atlantic at all with those ships is something not many people could accomplish even now
He greatly miscalculated the size of the Earth and thought he was sailing to Asia. His survival was entirely serendipitous because it turned out that there were land masses in the way.
dink I would like to see you navigate without your smart phone, unless you are a navigator by trade I doubt you can do grid, cele, or proper land navigation. Considering he was traveling a direction in which there were no maps at all its hard to claim he was a bad explorer.
At about the 16-minute mark it is stated that Columbus returned to Spain, arriving on June the 11th 1446. This should be 1496, as 1446 pre-dates Columbus' original first voyage. I'm not criticizing, just pointing out an error. Simon is a Great narrator and we really enjoy most of the videos.
At 16:00, Columbus performs an amazing feat of time travel, arriving back in Portugal in 1446, forty-six years BEFORE departing for the first time. Christopher Columbus, Time Lord!
5feetgoaround fullflapsC150 Okay, first, I’m Mexican so let me tell you something: there are a lot of untrue myths surrounding the aztecs and misinformation has caused that various cultures mix in with the aztecs. (Most notably, the Mayans). The Aztecs didn’t go around sacrificing everyone and weren’t as oppressive as they make them look. They where basically the Roman equivalent in America (a large empire that conquered other cultures and then either incorporated them into theirs or collected tribute). But, as I said in my first comment, they were no saints. They did kill a lot of people via human sacrifice to please their gods (they believed that if they didn’t, the gods would kill them). And they were really cruel to the captured tribes. Does that justify them being massacred by Cortez? No.
Gipsy Danger the reason we celebrate Columbus Day is because without him the USA wouldn't exist. At least not for many centuries and according to my calculations that would mean Europe would be under communist control due to the lack of US intervention in the Cold War.
You left out a major part of the story though. One of the things Columbus was told to do was convert the natives to Christianity. Instead of doing that he enslaved them, even going so far as to forbid the priest from getting them saved.
As a kid I watched a cartoon that depicted Columbus as a very cool guy, glorifying his explorations, and I loved him back in the days. Little I knew, back in the days, that he was just "a man of his time" like everyone else, and he was involved in slave trade and such things that we reject in modern times. It's good to hear unbiased and fair accounts about people from the past. Interesting video.
Love your videos Simon! Although I suggest double-checking your footage before uploading. A few of your videos I’ve watched so far, you say the wrong years on accident - like saying “1945” and a few other wrong years in this video. They’re still informative though!
What were your sources for this? Most of the bad things people claim about Columbus were written by that inspector, a political rival that slandered Columbus to reduce his prestige and remove him from the governorship in Hispaniola. Columbus adopted a native boy and was well thought of by the locals. I am not saying he was a perfect man, but he wasn't the megalomaniacal genocidist that people say. A lot of locals died, but a lot of that was from the new diseases that the westerners introduced accidentally. They did take slaves, which is awful. Columbus was a man of his time, and probably a better man than me or than many of the other viewers in this video. He was a great man. Deeply flawed, but so are we all.
Where did they get the "125,000 murdered" number? Surely Columbus didn't count them. I would venture that this is a guesstimate, and could be off by an order of magnitude either way.
You know I get sick and tired of everybody blaming Columbus for every Indian that died of disease. How about the sexually transmitted disease that came from the Indians to Europe and many women suffered from that because the men were not chaste. If it hadn't been Columbus it would have been somebody eventually from your that would have come and settled and yes of course Columbus didn't quote discover America but he was the first one to come and then come back and be able to live there as far as settlements were concerned. Yes the Vikings new America was there they settled in Greenland and Iceland but unfortunately the little Ice Age came about and they couldn't remain in Iceland and Greenland because it was too damn cold. Not enough grass would grow to support sheep or cattle, so the sheep and cattle died because not enough grazing land for them that got too cold the Vikings were surviving on fish. They ask for help from their native lands and it took two years for them to be rescued. But Columbus did discover the islands and South America I don't think anybody else discovered them so you could say he discovered the Americas. The Indians had no inherit resistance to measles mumps rubella smallpox chickenpox the flu you name it they had no way to fight it off. So when the adults get sick when the hunters get sick when the gatherers are sick along with the children in the old people everyone's going to die because there's nobody alive to take care of the sick to feed the sick they were hunter-gatherers they didn't have a store they could go buy some food if they could somehow get there even though they were sick. Even the white man and their family died from these diseases so it wasn't as if they weren't dying to.
Some say we shouldn't measure him by today's standards, so why was he brought back in chains to Spain and told the Queen he wasn't a wicked man. I think even back then they all knew he was committing genocide.
They couldn't give two shits about the natives (who weren't being genocided by the way). The monarchs were concerned with the complaints of the colonists who were being mismanaged.
PC Repair Guy stick to repairing PCs, history isn’t your strong suit. As stated earlier, he was arrested for mismanagement of the colonies. He had in fact condemned many of the colonists for their behavior toward the natives.
Fun fact, Columbus was a fervent Catholic, and he refused to believe that he hadn't found India because he believed he was chosen by God to do so. Even when literally everyone else said it was a new landmass.
Um…didn’t Columbus believe that the American continent was India by the time he found the mainland. He thought it was essentially something like Eden. Am I confused?
In a time with basically no technology, he taught himself multiple languages, navigation, the lunar and solar eclipses, and a hist of other things. A bad explorer? He was one of the few people alive that could navigate the seas. He was one of the most important people in history, he reunited people who had been separated since the glaciers of the ice age melted.
0:40 - Chapter 1 - Early life
2:20 - Chapter 2 - Heading out to sea
4:20 - Chapter 3 - Voyaging experience
5:40 - Chapter 4 - Seeking asia
7:10 - Chapter 5 - Royal backing
10:55 - Chapter 6 - Voyage to a new world
13:20 - Chapter 7 - Decimating the natives
16:00 - Chapter 8 - Continental search
17:45 - Chapter 9 - Rebellion
19:00 - Chapter 10 - At the king's mercy
21:00 - Chapter 11 - The curtain falls
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He’s just saying a load of rubish about Colombo, no prof whatsoever.
@@KuovadisI think you should check out google and see if columbo was really a good person…
@@Kuovadis He shouldn't have to prove himself on every little thing, he's obviously done the research and you can't go correct people on stuff that you haven't looked into yourself. Simon is a great historian I don't care what you say. (And you obviously haven't looked into it because I have and he's not a good person.)
"In 1492 Columbus got us a day off school." Eric Cartman
that's the only good thing he did
My cousin still had to go so I think some places started to not care for the day
@Nich Hodge I read they sailed from Netherlands.. ???
You mean "schoooo"
God of Warhammer besides civilizing the Americas
Everyone caught the 1945 typo but at 16:06 he says 1446, in which Columbus hadn't been born yet.
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I am confused, when was Columbus a controversial figure?
@@seanleith5312 he has become a controversial figure because now people know the history of rape and murder to native peoples
@@spencerdavies9389 So people didn't know until now? Which school did you attend? I think better get your money back. They turned you from a blank paper into lunatics.
@Gary C He misspoke. It was not a typo. A typo is when you type something wrong.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding is that Columbus left approximately 40 men on one of the islands to start building a fort while he returned to Spain. This was an island that Columbus found largely by chance, as you might expect from a navigator who had never been in that part of the world before. Upon his return to Spain, he outfitted more ships and returned to the island where he had left the men only to find they had all been killed. Am I correct so far? If yes, then here's my problem. I'm having trouble reconciling the twin notions that Columbus was a poor navigator with the fact that he was able to return to the exact same spot where he left his men. Finding the island (by chance) the first time can be considered pure luck, but returning to that very same island a year or two later must require at least a modicum of nautical talent. What say you, UA-camrs?
Ya, he was no slouch and he was not lost. He did not know exactly what country he was at but he knew where he was.
😎And lightning does strike twice, happens all the time. So yeah, driven by prevailing winds and currents can get you to the same obscure little island twice. Can you say blind, dumb luck?
I don’t think “UA-camrs” are going to see this, buddy…
@@rasheednesbitt8667, He never said he wanted UA-camrs to see it "buddy"
he used a sexton and travelled the 28th parrallel. Advanced thinking . The Author of this video is missing the point. Courage and determination underly any man who is the first to do something.
Noticed the "1945" thing. I had a chuckle at it and yeah, going by the sheer volume and quality of depth of the subject matter for this channel, its clearly understandable "bloopers" are gonna bloop. Deep respect to you Biographics, the crew and to Simon Whistler for his endearing, informative and beyond entertaining skill and style of presenting.
Ya, I thought I was hearing things, but I rewound back and there it was. Minor blooper, great series!
Bloopers are going to boop... 😂🤣😂 Love it!
I’m not upset about it. Simon and his team weren’t intentionally spreading misinformation and we know what they meant. Mistakes happen to all of us.
On the timeline & the 1945 thing. If the generally accepted voyage to "the New World" began in 1492, then even reversing the 9 and the 4 leaves us with 1495, which means he was first trying to convince Fernando and Isabel (La Catholica ) not Isabella, to make the trip in 1495 , and then had to wait 5&1/2 years for the approval, which would mean he would leave in1501, so the timeline is hopelessly jumbled. At 6:12 Christopher's brother is shown in a period portrait as Bartolomeo Colon, lending credence to several other accounts of Christopher's name actually being Colon, not Columbo of Genoa, but rather of Spain... Looking through several video's on Columbus there seems to be no lack of "historical" material, but also very many contradictions.
Oops.
Superb Simon. I can binge watch your videos from all your channels and I never get bored.
so much info...my brain is Overloading
Simon make a video on the language of Latin biography style
Not true. I love Simon's channels but I can't watch everything (I'm saying this only because I don't want to see starting to losen up the quality of the content ;)
True true true
Simon is my professor of history
This should be in a playlist called "everyone from history was bad".
Except not all were bad. Some were amazing.
@Nadine Smith what the hell are you talking about? Obviously there were natives in the Americas. That's how all the sailors contracted syphilis. Columbus is regarded as the first western European to arrive (and return).
@Nadine Smith ah, the irony of misspelling "dunce".
@Nadine Smith There were no Indians on the American continent when Columbus landed. Only native peoples. India is in Asia. You seem to be struggling with rudimentary English. Maybe take a break from trolling for a while.
@Nadine Smith Honestly, your comments are so badly written, it's difficult to make out what you are saying.
Queen Isabella: "No, I told you to give the children candy, not to kill them!"
you had one job, *ONE JOB*
lol.....
"Is it my fault if you mumble?"
@@BumMcFluff job
"Not sure what decade he was born in."
"He was 21 in year...."
He after that gave a rough estimate when he was born.
How about “we know for certain he was born in Genoa Italy..”
“The languages he spoke were Spanish, Latin and Portuguese..”
Funny how he was born in Italy, yet never actually spoke Italian..🤷♂️
@@andreizav7040 Maybe you don't understand English well enough... This is the full sentence which was said:
"Still, he overcame his lack of formal education by teaching himself many valuable skills including mapmaking, functional mathematics and a range of languages, including Spanish, Latin and Portuguese."
It does not say he doesn't speak Italian, it says that he lacked a formal education but basically self taught himself ADDITIONAL LANGUAGES including Spanish, Latin and Portuguese. That should be pretty obvious from this sentence.
Let's say I'm born in Germany, and I learnt Italian on my own and spoke German as my native language. Would anyone say "He taught himself Italian and German" about me....? No. German would be my native language, like Italian was his.
@@andreizav7040 The languages he learnt were Spanish, Latin and Portuguese.
Consider telling the story of Vasco da Gama on future episode.
The only “bad explorers” are the cowards who don’t dare to find. Columbus is the epitome of exploration and his “conman” ways are testament to his passion.
Columbus was a terrible person. But he was a spectacular adventurer. I've yet to find anyone who can make a true argument as to why Columbus didn't actually discover American without being intellectually disingenuous with their argument.
Columbus' discovery has always been in the context of European history, which modern America is an extension of.
He was an elitist slave trader, but so were the vast majority of figures from his time and before. Hardly makes him especially heinous.
Let me guess. You’re a Trump supporter.
To call him a bad explorer simply because he thought he was somewhere he wasn't is very ignorant and an oversimplification of the events. Today we rely on GPS and other fancy tools to guide ourselves across the seas of our planet. Back then, Columbus had to rely on dead reckoning and the stars to guide himself and his ships across an as yet unmapped ocean.
He must have known that he was not in Asia, as he started naming places left and right.
When the Portuguese arrived in India, Malasia, Japan, etc. they didn't name a single place, only in Brasil, and later in Africa.
He had to keep saying it was Asia untill he died, because no Asia, no pay, as per his contract with the kings.
Small nitpick: Saragossa is a city in Spain (where it's spelled differently). Sargasso is the sea (and Sargassum a kind of seaweed abundant there).
"An unarmed people are slaves or are subject to
slavery at any given moment": Huey Newton
I'd rather have an army. Well trained well equipped made up of citizens ready to defend society. I don't want my society armed. As society is full of idiots.
Only an educated compassionate army bros running in streets NO NO.
@@ispartacus1337 who controls the army?
@@ispartacus1337 That comment is so disrespectful and paradoxical to ur name it's insane. The citizens are suppose to be the army idiot so you don't become ruled by an elite class who can afford to pay an army.
DISARMING SOCIETY DOES NOT TAKE WEAPONS AWAY FROM CRIMINALS
Ahh 1945 the year Columbus stormed Berlin
Lmao
That would be interesting
You produce that as an alternate history video and I'll subscribe.
Imagine being a German citizen towards the end of WWII. You think the war couldn't get any worse.
Then suddenly.. you hear sirens. Look to the sky and see 3 giant flying ships the size of Laputa from Castle In The Sky heading towards Berlin.
I heard that and had to replay it, I thought I’d turned a different bio on 😅
Another interesting fact: amongst the reasons given to the rejection by the King of Portugal, was the fact that the Portuguese Kings were already aware of the existence of uncharted land to the West which was why Portugal, at the Treaty of Tordesillas, demanded an expansion on the west divisive line proposed by Pope Alexandre VI, so that it would encompass more of what is now the Northeast of Brasil.
The King of Portugal knew it wasn't possible to reach India via the West because there was land there. So he told Colombo to bugger off. The Kings of Spain had no idea so they funded it. In retrospective though, that might have been a bad move by King João II of Portugal...
Well they did ended up getting Brazil
Why are they still spewing this b.s. about Colombus? By the time of his first voyage it was known that islands and a large land mass existed between Europe and Asia, that there was gold there, that the people there were not indians, Chinese or Asians. Colombus was aware of this, his intentions were never to reach Asia but to get to lands where gold could be obtained and where territories could be claimed (land occupied by the empires of Asia could not be claimed). A massive con job has been perpetuated, either by him or by historians, but more like by both.
@@curtisthomas2670 He was just a lucky liar. He said those lands were 9,000 miles closer..
By that time it was well known in educated circles that the earth was not flat and all, it was just the highly religious and illiterate population and lack of free access to books that perpetrated the idea of a flat earth and no landmass.
It's funny they call Columbus' idea of a "round" earth revolutionary and still spread more misinformation when this channel is usually properly sourced and well researched. I think they dropped the ball with this one
@@curtisthomas2670 honestly it seems english speaking media has demonized Columbus and other Latin explorers and praise their own like James Cook and the rest, and modern works just repeat what they read in old sources and perpetuate those lies.
Honestly pretty much all europeans (save maybe the Dutch who were a trading empire) just exploited any local population, extracted any riches they could find and slave traded the hell out of the colonies (you know...the transatlantic slave trade was fueled not only by Spain and Portugal)
I got into a heated argument with my 5th grade teacher about this ended up staying after school. About 2 weeks later she handed me a McDonalds coupon saying "keep this to yourself, but I believe you are right"
what was it about
@@ace-dj1dm the teacher probably argued that the Earth is flat.
You were probably both wrong...
When I was in 5th grade they actually straight up told us the truth about him, everyone in the class was speechless because we thought of him as this ideal hero
at school they tried to teach us the made up story,
until another kid put up his hand and asked " what about all the native's he was responsible for killing and stealing the land, "
teacher stayed quiet for a couple seconds then started telling us the whole story
very good! Maybe check the '1945' at 9 minutes though!
Not sure he was alive and doing so well in 1945... ?
They shifted to the Gregorian calendar just 10 years earlier. Maybe they screwed it up royally and had to recalculate it?
he meant 1485
There are a lot of mistakes in SW's recent videos. Overwork I think.
I heard that too ha ha, little brain slip.
I've seen several mistakes here.
1)Is not sure where Colombus was really born
2)lots of historians think he married his first wife so he and his father in law could make money toguether
3)it is thought that father in law had the famous map of America/knew the currents to sail there,as Colombus ships got it right at the first attempt
4) only Castille's kingdom paid for the voyage. The gold went back to Isabella.
5) one of the charges Columbus faced was stealing from the crown, as he kept for himself lots of gold and pearls, and said nothing about it
6)slavery was forbidden, and one of the main chores in the continent was conversion to Christianity. The treatment of the natives was another cause of punishment by the Crown
not to mention he learned to sail and read charts in Portugal.
Colon Spoke Portuguese! Actually, as being of Italian blood on Mother side, he also I believe had a father! Who was his father? And many of the "1st" World Sailors were Portuguese, Bartolomeu Dias, Vasco da Gama etc. By the way, if he really was raised up in Genova, why wasn't his1st Discovery Island called ("Neuva/New") Genova? Why did an Italian guy call it Cuba? Where does this name Cuba comes from? An earlier love? Italy? France?? Spain???
About the 6th one, he still killed a lot of natives and his actions, and cruelty towards them, was so bad, that even 15th century people were like "whoa dude chill"
Slavery was forbidden by the crown since slavery was only permitted as a spoil of war back then. Christopher Columbus kept trying to encourage a slave trade and sent a total of 2000 natives back through 5 transatlantic journeys against the monarchy's wishes.
@@jesurenbnb
No, this is years later with Cortez...
Don't knock him for the 1945 incorrect date. He is very good at what he does and I and many others enjoy his videos!!! Bravo.
Nobody is perfect. These videos require a lot of work. I patreon him. Im grateful of teachers..
@@feetgoaroundfullflapsC the few mistakes that have been made out of hundreds of videos can't count out the Internet to point of pointless BS though doh
Great videos but how he says 1945 while talking about Christopher Columbus and didn’t realise it himself is hilarious.
Agreement.
You should do one of Amerigo Vespucci
These videos are the greatest thing I've seen. Quality info and presenting. Binge watched them all
I want to thank you for your videos. They are free, accessible and a perfect way to get quickly on any subjects. Thank you!
I listen to these every night. Absolutely love them. Keep them up
Christopher Columbus: I'm the one that discovered America first.
Leif Erikson: Am I a joke to you?
star wars fan number 1902 Haha, no
The fact that he had to say he wasn't wicked, but was ignorant... says a lot!
I had no idea of what actually took place with him and his crew. Thank you very much! It is very eye-opening.👍
He raped, murdered, pillaged, and stole... and didn't consider it wicked at all.
@Rafael Acosta He did nothing deserving of praise and many things deserving of condemnation. He doesn't deserve the respect he gets.
NO FOOL HE WAS wicked and ignorant a dam con man murder rapist and LIAR!!! AND AMERICA'S HISTORY IS A LIE!!!!
@@richlee3777 that is an anachronistic argument, had you been in his place you'd done the same
@@richlee3777 he discovered the new world. it was probably top 5 most important things to ever happen so he should get praised for that. other than that many people back in the past like romans and Egyptians are praised to this day yet they were worse than Columbus
How about a video on Rasputin next?
RA RA RASPUTIN LOVER OF THE RUSSIAN QUEEN
I think hes already done one on him maybe the other channel or maybe he was a highlight in one.
Ra Ra?
Rahlal that would be great!👍
Tbob2141 Ooh those Russians
Thanks Simon & the crew for another great episode! Your vids actually make my day, I just love coming home from a crap day at work to a new Biographics episode
Me too!
"In thy hands Lord, I command my spirit"
Something tells me he didn't meet the Lord. No, I imagine he met a red fella with horns...
He even had the balls to command 😂
@@adimazga Facts. Nobody commands but God
Columbus: In thy hands Lord, I command my spirit
Satan: hehe yee boiii come here.
@@frontfaced4140 Columbus only ever executed 2 people and it was men under his own command for killing natives.
@@ispartacus1337
He was the leader of the those people, they very much killed, massacred the native in his knowledge, the blame goes on him, he doesn't have to personally kill someone to be responsible for their death, if it's the case, Hitler's kill tally would be single digit.
Hundreds of slave whom dragged from their home who died because of rough treatment at the sea & after are down to him as well.
" We know very little of his life" yet we know enough to take 500 year old documents and paint a picture of this man how we see fit.
It pushes the agenda and gives people a scapegoat.
So why not, eh?
"Let's also forget about his rival explorers besmirching his name out of spite in their writings or peddling the noble savage myth again and again."
We shouldn't judge someone from the 15 century by our modern standards. Yes he took slaves and people died where he explored but people everywhere in the world took slaves at any chance they could get then and continued to do so for centuries after Columbus. And the deaths he caused are greatly overstated in this video. His 90 men didn't murder 125,000 people. The majority of native Americans died from disease that their bodies were not used to. And the amount of people that died is always greatly exaggerated in modern times. The Americas had between 2-8 million (few say 18 million) people living there when Columbus landed in America most historians say. Meaning both massive continents were mostly empty as it was with many histories saying the populations of the Americas were already dropping before Columbus arrived. And then the cause of the populations of the America's natives dying was not the fault of Columbus or anyone it was just that the native Americans could not deal with the diseases that had already taken place in the old world. There was just as much of a chance that there could have been diseases in the Americas that the old world could not cope with when brought back there. After the diseases ran their course through the Americas the native population then started to skyrocket as modern farming and the animals needed to do so were introduced to the Americas. Allowing enough food to be grown for the population of the Americas to finally start to increase after centuries of being stagnate.
Bottom line, Columbus's greatest accomplishment of discovering America for the rest of the world is one of the biggest events in human history. And he rightfully should continue to be celebrated for bringing it's attention to the rest of the world.
Vinny Siracusa the way some people cry about this time you would think it had happened to them bottom line it has nothing to do with the present
europeans needed help from mores just to learn how to clean there ass
He was a disgusting man even for his time do ur research homie
That actual last paragraph is why Columbus is seen up until recent years as a great man and hero. Everything that has to do with the US (Even though he didn't actually discover that) historically has to be a romantic fairy tale of good conquering over evil, where everything that happened was done by good people, conquering evil or making great accomplishments. The fact is that for a lot of the time this just isn't true. It's propaganda, which Americans are taught in schools and all their lives until it is completely gospel. I think that from what you are writing you have been greatly subjected to it. I mean the fact that you are defending him by saying he landed in America. He didn't, he landed in the West Indies and the fact that you believe modern farming increased the native population? The global population didn't "skyrocket" until the `1800s' and by then the natives of the Americas were certainly not increasing in population. Stop trying to romanticise history!
Thanks Brother
And, in 2019, Columbus Day and indigenous People’s day is the same day- well done, America.....
Maybe in North America (which is funny since Columbus never set a foot there). In Latin America it used to be called "día de la Raza" or Race day (referencing a race of people) but now has been changed to a more proper "day of racial diversity" to emphasize the celebration of cultural diferences rather than conquest
@RedfireBonus they are islands in the Caribbean. Not part of any continent at all. The ignorance of basic geography is just mind blowing.
@@lilymarinovic1644 The Caribbean is for all intents and purposes a part of NORTH AMERICA. That's like saying Britain isn't in Europe.
@@lilymarinovic1644 Go back to school..smh
Read the book on the 4th voyage of Columbus . He may have been a bad administrator on la nd but as a seafarer he’s was incredible
He was repugnant
@@marymiller6188i bet thats a big word for you
No question. He earned the title of admiral of the seas from a navigational perspective.
Please do a video about Peter the Great or Hannibal Barca
Yes peter the great
Definitely for Peter the Great!
Thank you
4 videos in and I can tell that this channel will become my obsession while working.
Great videos! Can you do one on Davy Crockett?
Do Ferdinand Magellan next pls
Bad explorer by what measure? You probably couldn’t navigate your way out of a wet paper bag bud
"I COMMEND my spirit", actually.
Depends on the translation you use! Remember this is a guy speaking Spanish in the 1500s being translated to English in the 2000s
I wished you had given Columbus as much grace as you did Che , when telling his story.
Che was a murderer
Cope
Whatever, simon did an great analysis on the man
"The uncomfortable truth" I like that.
"Truth" If you want truth then watch "In Defense of Columbus: An Exaggerated Evil"
@@waahaah861 He is lying to you, sucka. I know Spanish and Portuguese.. He lies to you, idiots..
@@waahaah861 honestly that's the fairiest video in english i have seen analyzing Colombo since it eliminates many myths and looks at the context of the time period. And pretty much says that any French, British or any sailor of the big European kingdoms would have done the same or worse in his position. And that he failed to control his men rather than order mass executions. He was a good sailor (if anything greedy) overwhelmed by having to actually lead something
Overall, this is a good video. But there is a glaring major error: The indigenous people on Hispanola (and Puerto Rico, aka Boriqua) were TAINO, not, Arawak.
Also, at the 16min10sec mark, the narrator says Columbus arrived back in Spain in "1446," which is before Columbus, who was sailing under "Colon," another omission from the video makers, was born. There are too many errors, significant ones, for me to give this a "good" evaluation. It was bad, due to the number of mistakes of fact.
"Made his way to Cordova in 1945" wow Christopher lived a long ass time!!! Haha!!!
Love these videos so interesting keep making them
Lol 1945? I did not know Columbus found America after WW2
Jonathan Armstrong yes he did
Jonathan Armstrong i think he was talking about his great great great great great grandson
Now you do.
No wonder he was a bad explorer, he got lost long enough to miss out on two world wars and the founding of American. I'm surprised Spain didn't ask where the hell he'd been all these years.
JK
@@justinmiller2132 this comment needs more likes !
I have read and watched a lot about Columbus, but I learned much more in this short video. Thanks, well done!
Gabaldon single-handedly captured more than ten times the number of prisoners taken by legendary Medal of Honor recipient, Sgt. Alvin C. York, in World War I. Despite this recommendation, Gabaldon was awarded a Silver Star Medal. Please do a boigraphics of him
I'd love to watch Hernan Cortes biography.
There is a good one on another channel with better graphics. Truly amazing both horrifying and incredible.
Without question, one of the best, entertaining, and most educational sites on the internet. Thank you.
In this house Christopher Colombia is a hero! End of subject!
By enslaving natives
@@TheDragon-v7d A Hero.
liars are heroes there.
@@outwiththem Hero!!!!!
@@franklynrizzo8328 FAlso HERO.
@9.00 did I hear you say ‘toward end of ‘1945’ am had to pause and check thinking am l watching WW2 documentary? Nice biography tho as always I love your videos. Never gt bored since discovering this channel of biographics❤️
He isn’t a bad explorer, a bad explorer wouldn’t make it over the Atlantic at all
Flying Cabbage he’s considered a explorer because he never made it to the place he set out multiple time to get to. If you claimed that you get me to Jersey but ended up anywhere but I’d call you a shitty navigator too lol.
Not really comparable at all.
dinkyboss he was a good navigator though just the fact he got over the Atlantic at all with those ships is something not many people could accomplish even now
He greatly miscalculated the size of the Earth and thought he was sailing to Asia. His survival was entirely serendipitous because it turned out that there were land masses in the way.
dink I would like to see you navigate without your smart phone, unless you are a navigator by trade I doubt you can do grid, cele, or proper land navigation. Considering he was traveling a direction in which there were no maps at all its hard to claim he was a bad explorer.
Some Americans still vehemently defend this monster/lousy explorer
He wasn't a monster. There's a massive propaganda campaign to paint him as such to discredit the West.
At about the 16-minute mark it is stated that Columbus returned to Spain, arriving on June the 11th 1446. This should be 1496, as 1446 pre-dates Columbus' original first voyage.
I'm not criticizing, just pointing out an error. Simon is a Great narrator and we really enjoy most of the videos.
Stories are in great value.simon also doing a great job.thank you.
He discovered America alright 🙄😂😂😂😂😂🤣
I'm not gonna even try to understand this....
Thank you for educating ...I'm so Happy I found your Channel...I'm learning so much and I'm excited about that.
At 16:00, Columbus performs an amazing feat of time travel, arriving back in Portugal in 1446, forty-six years BEFORE departing for the first time. Christopher Columbus, Time Lord!
He also struggled financially in 1945 apparently
Best comment, hands down
You are a very talented man. Thank you for expanding our knowledge .
Do Hernan Cortes please.
Another arsehole
@@AleCharlie No.. He conquered the nasty Aztecs..
5feetgoaround fullflapsC150
I mean, the Aztecs where no saints but cortes was a massive idiot.
@@thecollector4332 Let me sacrifice your only son to the my gods. Im going there with 200 more to get it..
5feetgoaround fullflapsC150
Okay, first, I’m Mexican so let me tell you something: there are a lot of untrue myths surrounding the aztecs and misinformation has caused that various cultures mix in with the aztecs. (Most notably, the Mayans). The Aztecs didn’t go around sacrificing everyone and weren’t as oppressive as they make them look. They where basically the Roman equivalent in America (a large empire that conquered other cultures and then either incorporated them into theirs or collected tribute). But, as I said in my first comment, they were no saints. They did kill a lot of people via human sacrifice to please their gods (they believed that if they didn’t, the gods would kill them). And they were really cruel to the captured tribes. Does that justify them being massacred by Cortez? No.
Great biographies. Thank you for making these videos!
It's disgusting what he did against the Native Americans. And till this day, the US has a national holiday for this man.
Didn't some places change the day to something else like fall break. Also American just use the day as a day off and nothing more.
Gipsy Danger the reason we celebrate Columbus Day is because without him the USA wouldn't exist. At least not for many centuries and according to my calculations that would mean Europe would be under communist control due to the lack of US intervention in the Cold War.
StoneColdAJ The USA should thank the British for its existence and not Columbus.
Farhan Ahmed the Americas wouldn't have been for maybe a century or more so the British wouldn't even have made the colonies in America.
StoneColdAJ you just can't know so don't assume. It's pointless and only hypothetical
You left out a major part of the story though. One of the things Columbus was told to do was convert the natives to Christianity. Instead of doing that he enslaved them, even going so far as to forbid the priest from getting them saved.
Marco Polo would be a nice addition.
love your videos bro
Terra! Terra! Terra!
Tora! Tora! Tora! Lmao
In 1492 columbus got us all a day off skeel
Eric Cartman
Kings of Spain lived in Valladolid, Capital of Spain in that era, Columbus Lived there too.
Committed mass murder, died a wealthy man, but never got to enjoy his weath. Karma?
What mass murder? Your blaming him for what others did many years after?
Paul Fucili are you dumb? He obviously committed mass murder dummy
Paul Fucili 70,000 dead under his command. Yeah, he’s a fucking monster
Wow. Simon's basement has progressed over the last few years
"The discoverer of America, he wasn't!" perfect. haha :)
"No european knew of america" BuT hE DidNT dIScoVer AmErICa
Such a good channel. Keep it up guys
Also that statistic of his "Genocide" is inaccurate as it includes deaths under his sons
And disease too
As a patron supporter, im proud to say that i help funded the new intro video.
As a kid I watched a cartoon that depicted Columbus as a very cool guy, glorifying his explorations, and I loved him back in the days. Little I knew, back in the days, that he was just "a man of his time" like everyone else, and he was involved in slave trade and such things that we reject in modern times. It's good to hear unbiased and fair accounts about people from the past. Interesting video.
He didn’t discover “America”. He discovered Northern America. Pedro Álvarez Cabral discovered southern America
So... Columbus never actually landed on North America..?
WTF?
I knew that, I learned that in 5th or 6th grade, which was between 1964 and 1965
@@Robbi496 I thought everyone knew that lol
He did actually on his 4th voyage.
I just found that out today at school, so.......
The tea is SPILLED!☕⬇
I really love these videos. You do great work!
Love your videos Simon! Although I suggest double-checking your footage before uploading. A few of your videos I’ve watched so far, you say the wrong years on accident - like saying “1945” and a few other wrong years in this video.
They’re still informative though!
flip wilson did a great routine on columbus where he had isabella [using geraldine's voice] saying , " chris gonna find ray charles " .
I'd like to see a video about Thomas Stonewall Jackson.
Yeh, especially his death by friendly fire, couldn't happen to a better person!
@@pr-tj5by i say the same when i pass his monument here in Richmond🙄
@@PureNapture We don't have statues of Scum like this in the UK.
@@pr-tj5by I saw a mural with Robert E. Lee and Stonewall in a loyalist section of Belfast a few years ago
@@Seamus322 Walk around any park in the UK, you won't find Scum on the level of Lee and Jackson
These videos just get better 👌
What were your sources for this? Most of the bad things people claim about Columbus were written by that inspector, a political rival that slandered Columbus to reduce his prestige and remove him from the governorship in Hispaniola. Columbus adopted a native boy and was well thought of by the locals.
I am not saying he was a perfect man, but he wasn't the megalomaniacal genocidist that people say. A lot of locals died, but a lot of that was from the new diseases that the westerners introduced accidentally. They did take slaves, which is awful. Columbus was a man of his time, and probably a better man than me or than many of the other viewers in this video. He was a great man. Deeply flawed, but so are we all.
In thy hands Lord, I command YOUR spirit.
Where did they get the "125,000 murdered" number? Surely Columbus didn't count them. I would venture that this is a guesstimate, and could be off by an order of magnitude either way.
most were killed by illness brought by Europeans and it had nothing to do with Columbus's actions
You know I get sick and tired of everybody blaming Columbus for every Indian that died of disease. How about the sexually transmitted disease that came from the Indians to Europe and many women suffered from that because the men were not chaste. If it hadn't been Columbus it would have been somebody eventually from your that would have come and settled and yes of course Columbus didn't quote discover America but he was the first one to come and then come back and be able to live there as far as settlements were concerned. Yes the Vikings new America was there they settled in Greenland and Iceland but unfortunately the little Ice Age came about and they couldn't remain in Iceland and Greenland because it was too damn cold. Not enough grass would grow to support sheep or cattle, so the sheep and cattle died because not enough grazing land for them that got too cold the Vikings were surviving on fish. They ask for help from their native lands and it took two years for them to be rescued. But Columbus did discover the islands and South America I don't think anybody else discovered them so you could say he discovered the Americas. The Indians had no inherit resistance to measles mumps rubella smallpox chickenpox the flu you name it they had no way to fight it off. So when the adults get sick when the hunters get sick when the gatherers are sick along with the children in the old people everyone's going to die because there's nobody alive to take care of the sick to feed the sick they were hunter-gatherers they didn't have a store they could go buy some food if they could somehow get there even though they were sick. Even the white man and their family died from these diseases so it wasn't as if they weren't dying to.
Kathleen Murphy How could he discover a place people were already living in? 🤔🤔
Bartholomew Del Casas ,a bishop from Spain wrote about it and sent to Spain the information. It is in a book called the Destruction of the Indies
@LadyGaGa is hot What about the "native americans" who slaughtered other "native americans"?
Excellent video Simon👍 thank you.
Just because someone else discovered it first doesn't mean it wasn't also a discovery for him, too. And he is the one who opened it up to Europe.
Christopher Columbus: I found India!
My Norse ancestors: *laugh in old Norse*
My Apache ancestors: *Laugh in Jicarilla*
Apaches murdered my people
Some say we shouldn't measure him by today's standards, so why was he brought back in chains to Spain and told the Queen he wasn't a wicked man. I think even back then they all knew he was committing genocide.
They couldn't give two shits about the natives (who weren't being genocided by the way). The monarchs were concerned with the complaints of the colonists who were being mismanaged.
@@Zarastro54 well, thanks for clarifying, we know you were there
@@chrisschafer9137 thank you, sir.
PC Repair Guy stick to repairing PCs, history isn’t your strong suit. As stated earlier, he was arrested for mismanagement of the colonies. He had in fact condemned many of the colonists for their behavior toward the natives.
@@pretzelstick320 stick to pretzels
Simon, thx 4 teaching me sumthin new every day!! Keep up the brilliant work! 😍😘
It's "commend my spirit", not "command".
great video!
Columbus was a complex man. One thing is certain: he had a massive influence on the history of humankind.
evil man*
@@4keepz00 Not more evil than most of his contemporaries. Certainly not more evil than the English colonists and the US governments.
@21:35 'Father, into your hands I commEnd (not commAnd) my spirit'
Great video, thank you.
We love your work. Can plz do a bio on Hari Singh Nalwa. Thnx 👍🏼
Fun fact, Columbus was a fervent Catholic, and he refused to believe that he hadn't found India because he believed he was chosen by God to do so. Even when literally everyone else said it was a new landmass.
Um…didn’t Columbus believe that the American continent was India by the time he found the mainland. He thought it was essentially something like Eden. Am I confused?
Videos are great and straight forward. I hope you will rectify the frequent mistakes in Dates. Keep up!!
In a time with basically no technology, he taught himself multiple languages, navigation, the lunar and solar eclipses, and a hist of other things. A bad explorer? He was one of the few people alive that could navigate the seas. He was one of the most important people in history, he reunited people who had been separated since the glaciers of the ice age melted.
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