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Was Christopher Columbus a hero or a villan​

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It depends on how one looks at Columbus, in some terms he was a hero for finding Spain more land & cultivating it in a way. He was also a Villian for the way he treated American natives.

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some people protest against Christopher Columbus being seen as a hero because. Columbus’s main goal was finding and taking resources for Spain. These resources included the people Columbus brought back to Spain as slaves. His sailors stole from, kidnapped, and murdered native people. Additionally, the Europeans brought diseases with them. These diseases killed many people. They had no defense against the illnesses. Columbus may have opened the Americas to colonization. He also destroyed many of the indigenous cultures in the process.

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