Talk:Christopher Columbus/@comment-25712820-20190702040146/@comment-40006089-20190702103051

It's a myth, is why it isn't in the history books. There were loads of conquistadors and other explorers who did these things, but most evidence suggests that Columbus was actually one of the better ones and wasn't akin to the same barbarism.

He's just become something of an exaggerated evil that people latch onto these days, trying to illustrate the dangers of colonialism by saying "this well-known person was bad in all these ways!", often times with great emphasis on political context, for politics' sake.