[Soothesayer]

Leftists hate Columbus about as much as they hate our Republic.

They have far more respect for Aztec sacrificial slaughter and other assorted forms of oppression and cruelty.

[Repeal The 17th]

Columbus was “O.K.”...but Pizarro and Cortes were real assholes.

[Cacique]

Let’s hear it for Cristobal Colon..

[Vince Ferrer]

The reason Columbus is important is he saved European Civilization from falling to Islam. The land based silk road from Europe to Asia had long been cut off by Muslims, stopping trade with Asia and helping send Europe into the dark ages. Once the Moors were kicked out of Spain, the great explorers were funded to find a sea route to Asia.

Columbus did not discover India, but he discovers the New World, where Europeans could build colonies, increase their populations, transplant their culture, and get supplies and wealth, uncontested by Muslims. Others did discover trade routes to Asia.

This invigorated Europe, helped cause the current age of science and trade which eclipsed Islam, and not until now was Europe threatened by muslim invasion.

[Rome2000]

Bobadilla got what was coming to him in that hurricane, and Columbus didn't even lose an ounce of his personal gold!.

Columbus had divine intervention throughout his life, and was one of the greatest figures in recorded western history.

[Eternal_Bear]

Columbus may be superfluous as the Portugese explorer Cabral while leading an expedition to India swung to the West of Africa and discovered Brazil in 1500. No one knows if it was accidental or intentional as some hypothesize that the Portugese were vaguely aware of lands to the West due to their earlier voyages of discovery.

In fact the King of Portugal was so intrigued by Columbus's proposals of a voyage to the India via the West that while he officially spurned Columbus, he sent at least 4 expeditions to the West. They may have sighted land or perhaps seen evidence of landfall.

[ehj666]

But Leif landed first. :)

Happy Leif Ericson Day (October 9)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leif_Erikson_Day

[Flag_This]

"When Caesar Augustus became Rome's first emperor-imperator, his authority over a vast domain — stretching from Scotland to the Sudan and across the desert sands of the Middle East..."

Britain wasn't conquered by the Romans until sometime after Augustus shuffled off his mortal coil. I don't believe they ever conquered Scotland (Hadrian's wall).