Christopher Columbus - Hero or Villian? Short essay

Christopher Columbus Was Christopher Columbus a world class hero, or a villain of the worst kind? Does he deserve the credit and fame that name is infamous for? Later in this work you will see why he could be considered hero and villain at once. As we learned, it's all how you interpret the facts given too you. Christopher Columbus could be considered a villain for substantial reasons. He started many things that we today …

…think that if he hadn't 'run' into the Americas then someone else would have at a later date. Would that have been any less of a discovery, no, of course not. I think someone else would have gotten the glory for discovering it, and also the villainy for the genocide. The world certainly would have been a different place if Columbus hadn't done what he had done when he had, and that fact is unmistakable.