Happy immigrants and indigenous peoples day…
Alternatively central Ohio day, for those wishing to draw attention to the fact that the capital of Ohio would very much like a different name
And according to new research, Columbus wasn’t Italian after all but a Spanish Jew. Though it hasn’t been peer-reviewed yet so it remains to be seen if it holds up to scrutiny.
And according to Spanish history, Columbus wasn’t the one that did the enslaving. After settling and making a small base he returned with news and then the conquerors went for war, the most notorious figure being Hernan Cortez.
It’s crazy the amount of Columbus hate I read on american websites and no mention of Cortez, who was way way worse.
Iirc Columbus did go back and do his share of abusing too though.
And was removed from his governorship because he was an evil motherfucker even by conquistador standards.
Not by conquistador standards, conquistadors weren’t a thing when he died. He was the Caribbean governor and conquistadors conquered the rest of americas some years after he died.
1: Would you agree that the Spanish systemically conquered the Caribbean islands to establish the base of operations they needed to expand on the mainland?
2: What does conquistador directly translate as?
3: Was Columbus specifically removed because he was bad even by the other conquered islands’ standards?
Its* native peoples
“It’s” means “it is”
Or you could just use the context, like any other homograph.
I like the part that points out dolphins are more intelligent than humans.
The only creature on earth smarter than dolphins are mice
The colombian exchange made pizza possible, sooo…
Just the tomato base really. There was still a lot of pizza-like food that predated the columbian exchange because I guess it doesn’t require much effort to invent “bread with stuff on it”
I mean, yes they made it a national holiday, but it does also celebrate the beginning of a campaign of genocide.
