What Do You Know?! Columbus Edition

Columbus was the first to “discover” the Americas

Columbus was a religious man

Columbus was exploring under Spain

Christopher Columbus is his birth name

Because of Columbus & his men’s behavior/interactions with the Arawaks, the population was almost completely killed

There are only two national holidays that celebrate individuals: Martin Luther King Jr. & Columbus Day

You should believe everything you read/teachers tell you

There is archeological evidence that Africans/Phoenicians were interacting with people of the Americas long before C

Columbus & his men began the transatlantic slave trade

The indigenous populations of America were primitive & basic 

Many goods were traded in the transatlantic trade

Many of the cruel behaviors comitted against the indigenouse people were because the deserved it