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Balance:
Pro: wonderful faith and great ambition led him to discover new continents for the Europeans and started the legacy that is now America, Canada, and all of the American countries. He was a brave explorer who's mistake planted the seeds of the west.
Con: he was extremly selfish and greedy, not placing any value on the lives of the natives. His mistake in searching for asian wealth lead to the extinctuion of many peoples and the eventual near extinction of the native American people.
An interesting thought: this thread is specifically about the attrocities of Christopher Columbus, yet people are outraged about the lack of the positive light on CC. I'm sure a post about how good Chritopher Columbus was would do fine, but that would be a different thread. This is about the poor decisions, selishness, and barbarism that CC carried out, and the resulting wars and deaths.
If you want a balance of good for the bad in this thread, go start The Acheivments of Christopher Columbus thread. This is about the attrocities.
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