1492

1492 In the year of 1492, the man who brought tragedy to the Americas was seen as a hero to us, but little did we know what he really did. Every elementary kid learned that Christopher Columbus found America in an honorable way. We also have a national holiday just for him. They never told us though how he was looking for the Indies and thought he was in China. In reality he was lost and had no clue he was in America. They also did not show us how he actually treated the people on the islands when he met them. He was cruel to them just because they could not understand him and he took away their land just because he wanted to. Christopher Columbus was a really bad man, but was taught to us as a good man. What really happened in the year 1492 was that Columbus was a liar, he ordered his men to kill and hurt people, and he was a slave trader.
Columbus got permission to sail westward to find China from Ferdinand of Argon and Isabella of Castille. He had told them the trip was for a good cause. He wanted to spread their religion and have others be known and welcome others to it. The King and Queen gave him money for three ships.1 What he had told them was not the truth at all. He wanted to go find gold and become wealthy without them knowing he just wanted the help to start that out. Even when people tried to help him he was very cruel to them. His men on the ship little did they know about traveling. Christopher would lie to them about how far they had traveled when being asked. Poor men were tired because of all the hard work they did on the ship but Christopher would tell them they traveled more miles than what they actually did to push them more into thinking they were almost there when in reality they still had a long way to go. If he was a nice man he would not have treated them like that and would have them rest. He lied to whoever he could just to have it his way and it worked.
Once he found land and met the Natives he introduced himself and spoke to them