Christopher Columbus, who was a genocidal, slaving shithead
Fun fact! His exploits in America are consistently brushed off in Italian public school. Students read about him thrice, in elementary (6-10), middle (11-13) and high school (14-18), as history lessons “reset” every education cycle. Every time I studied him, it was a short blurb about him discovering America, thinking it was India, and dying poor despite his big accomplishments.
Daily reminder that all countries (and some more than others) have issues facing their past still, even if it’s something that happened so many centuries ago, you’d think nobody would ever have a problem with it.
Fun fact! His exploits in America are consistently brushed off in Italian public school. Students read about him thrice, in elementary (6-10), middle (11-13) and high school (14-18), as history lessons “reset” every education cycle. Every time I studied him, it was a short blurb about him discovering America, thinking it was India, and dying poor despite his big accomplishments.
Daily reminder that all countries (and some more than others) have issues facing their past still, even if it’s something that happened so many centuries ago, you’d think nobody would ever have a problem with it.
same in portugal, though we focus a lot more on our discoveries
I wonder why? He was Portuguese, funded by Sapin, and Italy wouldn’t be founded for another 4 centuries or so.
He was from Genoa not Portugal