Christopher Columbus

Who was Christopher Columbus? In this video, Kim explores Columbus's background, his search for royal patronage, and his first voyage in 1492.

[@mackenziecole525]

Christopher Columbus chopped of native Americans hands. America literally has a day to celebrate this man. Make it make sense.

[@chimb9627]

No he didnt. Moron

[@mackenziecole525]

@@chimb9627 yes he did idiot. I’m assuming you never really looked at the real history of thanksgiving or the first few months colonizations where here.

[@mackenziecole525]

@@Inactive130 from who 💀?

[@virinderrampersad2385]

INFORMATIONAL

[@donfudido]

He named a discovered island Cuba what is a place in Portugal. Very strange for an Italian sailing for Spain to choose a name what is situated in Portugal. When he returns his first stop is Lisbon where he stayed for a week before returning to Spain. Very strange. A son of a laborer with no aristocrastic background has a audience with 2 kings, what is impossible in that time AND marry a Portuguese nobel woman. Very strange.

[@sgcars]

For westeners, everything starts with ancient greeks including rhe world was round. They forget there existed great civilizations before the greeks from the babylons to persians to indians ans the chinese each having thought of round earth, zero, so called pythogoreas theorem and so many other things the greeks borrowed later after conquests and trade. In fact the book aeosops fables was written in india at least 300 years before the greeks during the time of buddha.

[@kimbergeron9720]

The native Americans were here long before Columbus.

[@chissstardestroyer]

Yeah, those were the people he tried to trade with as it turns out... kind of impossible to trade with animals for things like gold.

[@cliffordnelson8454]

Please do some more reading before presenting. There is a awful lot of controversy about who he was. Appears that he was really Spanish since is native language was Spanish, and quite probably Jewish

[@Correctrix]

Talks of Norse settlers from Iceland, calls them "the Vikings of Norway..." *Circles Denmark and Sweden*

[@_thatonepeep]

yep... history :))) its khan academt, they do what they are told to say lol

[@achinthyanpalanisamy6012]

Did she say : from this man here?

[@amerepretorius7886]

It is wow

[@chissstardestroyer]

He had to backtrack real quick about some of his ideas: his sponsor, Isabella, she got pretty ticked with his idea to enslave the locals at one point from what I heard. And rightly so at that; if indeed he got that notion in his head.

[@chimb9627]

He never suggested that. He suggested the monarchy ruled them like any other Spanish subject. (Which wasnt a nice way to live at the time but didnt involve the buying, or torture of natives like yall like to lie about)

[@chissstardestroyer]

@@chimb9627 I'm with you on that claim you just made, Chimb, in addition, the Amerindians sure did engage in slavery, as well as cannibalism in several cases, and, while warfare was used to conquer the Aztecs, let us not forget that warfare is the lifestyle of a soldier- so it is expected. And we mustn't forget that the Aztecs were the aggressors overall in the methods; the only times the Spaniards attacked was that they had found out that the Aztecs were planning on assaulting and massacring them.

[@iosaturnalia980]

That's Madeira, not the Canary Islands

[@AlexanderPLee]

It is a bit weird that she draws a line to Cuba, when consensus is he made landfall at Hispaniola. Also, Genovese is more conventional than Genoese, but I am nitpicking because I have to watch this for a professional development class.

[@sgcars]

According to this version he was looking for China but called the natives he met in America "Indian". Ok good.

[@makavelithadonnn5541]

False

[@ms.k3837]

The vikings did not discover the Americas first! Please tell the whole truth. What is the point of Education of history is knowing the truth of how things were. Kids get graded for learning lies. What a wonderful Nation

[@Roben_GW]

Ms. K the first Europeans

[@ms.k3837]

Oh ok! I missed where she said the Vikings were the first Europeans to travel to America. I thought she said the vikings were the first to discover America.

[@victormalyar9200]

teachers are liars.

[@therandomizer-oy9nf]

Christopher Columbus had a sex slave trade

[@chimb9627]

@@therandomizer-oy9nf no he didnt. Moron

[@yeshuaisthewaythetruthandt515]

Clear language, not hurried

[@ThePolterGhast]

Christoper Columbus: *Genocide Noises*

[@chrisberg1735]

"Maybe" converting people to Christianity. You don't get to talk about history with "maybe" and your political agenda. Very poor video of history. Sad, really. She circled Sweden talking about Norway. Zero credibility.