A lot of people talk about how Columbus was genocidal and various other kinds of awful, but there isn't enough coverage of how much of an idiot he was.'nThere's a myth that he was trying to sail around the world to prove that the Earth was round.
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A lot of people talk about how Columbus was genocidal and various other kinds of awful, but there isn't enough coverage of how much of an idiot he was.
There's a myth that he was trying to sail around the world to prove that the Earth was round. This wasn't a thing that needed proving. The ancient Greeks not only knew that the Earth was round, they fairly accurately measured the diameter. By the time of Columbus this had been refined with even more accurate results.
Columbus wanted to open up a trade route to India via the ocean. He struggled to get funding because ships of that time couldn't carry enough supplies to feed the crew for the time it would take to sail all of the way from Portugal to India in a great circle arc. They would all starve before they got half way.
He was lucky that there was an unexpected continent in the middle (which he thought was India, because he had zero clue about the size of the Earth) and that the people he met were Indians (because he was racist).
He was a lucky idiot. I'm sure you can think of modern analogues.
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