In his wake, the “New World” suffered smallpox ... proclaimed “the 400th anniversary of the discovery of America by Columbus, as a general holiday for the people of the United States.” ...

We need not deride Columbus' reluctance to give up the world that he knew from books. Only idiots escape entirely from the world that the past bequeaths. The discovery of America opened a new ...

1492 discovery of the 'New World' for Spain. That itself has been a touch-point of controversy over his treatment of ...

He'd found a part of the world new to Europeans. Columbus became famous as the man who discovered new lands called the Americas. The King of Spain was happy, but the discovery was bad for people ...

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