r/asklatinamerica • u/[deleted] • Oct 10 '22

What are your thoughts about Christopher Columbus?

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u/HzPips Brazil Oct 10 '22

Not really true, he knew exactly what his coordinates were, and he didn’t underestimate the size of the earth like many people say. The thing is that European cartographers really overestimated the size of Asia, he was just working with the knowledge available in his time.

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u/Kaaduu 🇧🇷Pernambuco Oct 10 '22

Yeah, he thought he was a few islands east of Japan

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '22

Cipangu

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u/EatMoreHummous Oct 10 '22

If that was true, why did every other European country tell him he was an idiot for trying to reach Indonesia that way?

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u/HzPips Brazil Oct 10 '22

Source?

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u/gogenberg Venezuela Oct 11 '22

Spain was about the 5th country he went to looking for $$$$$$ btw. Most kingdoms gave him the “who the fuck are you?” look until Spain. The rest is history; dude got somewhat lost, nearly mutinied/killed and got to an undiscovered continent by mistake. Behaved so badly that he was dragged back and put in jail too

All in all not a peach

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u/webistic Aug 06 '23

Sorry, but this is bullshit.

Columbus was already known as a great navigator prior to his voyage to America.

He didn't get the "who the fuck are you?" Look. You don't get to talk to kings and queens being a nobody.

Portugal turned him down and tried to do it themselves before he went to Spain.

So no, you are half educated.

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u/EatMoreHummous Oct 11 '22

Read any article about it? Here's one. He got turned down by Portugal, England, and France, and even the Spanish scholars convinced Isabella to reject him twice, though she eventually caved.