Some people, with their made up history, have accused Columbus as the culprit of everything bad thing that has happened over the past 500+ years, which is just nonsense. Columbus was a man who embarked on a quest for a different route to India, and was willing to risk his reputation and life on that quest. However, a more important question that where he landed, is what he thought about what he had found. There are several islands that claim to be the spot of the first landing. They are all in the Bahamas, and the historical record is so old, it is open to interpretation today. Columbus never returned to the original landing site. However a more interesting question is at what point did Columbus realize he had found something other than a route to India? The debate here ranges from, Columbus always though he had found islands off the coast of India, v. his intention all along was to discover a new world. What is certain is that two cultures collided, which collision caused terrible hardship for the Native Americans.
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