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Columbus -- The Tragedy and the Enigma

Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong

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Did He Really Believe That He Had Reached Asia?

His heirs did successfully argue that they should have shares of the money and territory that spain was gaining in the new world. He continued to insist, until his death, that he had reached east asia, right? So he still claimed that these lands he had encountered were either japan or the philippines, or some sort of east indies. And also, in his final few years, he joined together with a friend of his who was a carthusian monk, and compiled a book of prophecies. It's suggestive that he was looking at this as a jewish education, that he wanted his son to have a religious education until until the age of maturity, which,

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