Columbus Week at Powell History!
October 8, 2007 by Scott Powell
Unlike modern historians, I am a huge fan of Christopher Columbus. I would rank him as one of the ten most important men in history–and for the good! So Powell History is going to celebrate not just Columbus Day, but as a small measure of justice for a man so wrongly villified in our modern culture, a week of Columbus-related posts highlighting his achievements and his significance in world history.
Christopher Columbus (c.1451-1506)
the most important explorer in world history
How right you are, Mr. Powell. Christopher Columbus probably represents the lowest-hanging fruit of modern academics intent on stealing some of a decedent’s fame by claiming it has been unjustified. Balderdash!
There probably exists no spot on Earth where someone else cannot be traced earlier, and earlier, etc. Missing, of course, is any enduring significance to such earlier appearances.
The results of migrations by bands of other ethnicities or cultures never amounted to more than the discovery of ingrown toenails on their own feet; and the result today can be summarized similarly as: So what?