[ALOCHONA] Reconsidering Columbus Day

      Even Howard Zinn did not elaborate too much on the question why it was so important for Western Europe for finding a different route to reach India. India was the the most fabulously rich country in the civilized world in the 15th, 16th, 17th and 18th centuries under the  Mughal Empire. Sailing south, and then eastward rounding the Horn of Africa was too daunting a task, and, frankly, no available European ship was that seaworthy.
 
   Columbus was foolish to think that he landed in India. But perhaps he found out his grave mistake sooner.
But then he decided to resort to the lie deliberately in order to continue favors flowing to him from Ferdinand and Isabel of Spain.
 
   He kept up the lie for 7 or 8 long years until Portugal's Vasco da Gama did sail around Africa to reach the western coast of India.
  What a MEGA size lie and think of its humongous after effects! Think of the wanton genocide that went on in the Caribbean and Cuban islands all for Columbus' lie. Colombus kept robbing gold from the natives to send to Spanish Royalty to prove that he had reached India, the land of gold!
 
          You must keep a copy of Howard Zinn's wonderful book by your side for any reference to the'real' history of the USA.  Read
a quote from Columbus' diary quoted by Zinn in the first chapter of his book:
      
http://www.truth-out.org/reconsidering-columbus-day-campaign-suggests-honoring-indigenous-peoples-history-instead64119
 
   I learned more about the reprehenible fraud that Colunbus was from a lecture by a professor from the University of Lisbon
delivered at a conference celebrating 500th Anniversary of the so called 'Discovery' of America at Columbia University in 1992.
 
                  Farida

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