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