Strayer, Chapter 14 ( pp.403-417)

" Columbus was a perpetrator of genocide..., a slave trader, a thief, a pirate, and most certainly not a hero." ( page 403) From when you are in elementary school you are taught about all the great things Columbus has done for us. That he is the one who found the world. We have been depicted such a lie that now it is not a nation holiday like for instance Martin Luther King Jr day. During this chapter we learned that the Europeans had a great deal on the establishment of the country. For instance like it stated Spanish, Portuguese, British and French all have one major thing in common which is that they were controlled by the Europeans, even financially. My view is that this is one reason people feel that the modern era was really the European era because they controlled not only people but economic abilities and countries.