Happy Columbus Day - McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader

Columbus was a very very brave man. And we are better off because of him. Don't fall for the PC view of Columbus. There is so much more to his story. Spain was bankrupt fighting the Moors 700 years. The Ottoman's had taken over Constantinople, blocking the main trade route into India and China. The Christian Byzantium was no more. Columbus was given three tasks for helping to preserve Christendom. 1. find a new trade route to India and China to by-pass the Ottomans 2. Find some wealth to refill the empty coffers of Spain (700 years of battles - to out the Moors and prevent the Muhammadan invasion of Europe) 3. Christianize the cannibalistic (Montezuma sold human flesh in the Market Place) land no one dared try. (many had 'discovered' America but saw what was there and turned right around and left.) Brave Columbus was given one decked ship sea worthy and two river boats. He was given rag-a-tag bunch of immoral criminal seamen, the only they could risk. The queen had to sell her jewels to pay for this because the west was broke. Yet, enemies were in the south and east. Columbus was ship-wrecked with the one good ship he had, The Santa Maria, and fought mutiny. He was amazing at achieving what he did. He kept two journals, one for his crew to read and one with the truth. There is so much more I shockingly read. The modern account of Columbus is far different than what is in the PC PS textbooks. You can read Washington Irving's (ambassador to Spain when Spain released the documents to the public) 5 volume account on Columbus after studying the journals and written accounts.... Oh, As for North America... The Indians numbered a mere around 'bout 300,000 only in the entire North America... dying of hunger regularly. For about 50 years of American colonization the Indian numbers peacefully increased substantially. The Indian problems didn't begin until later, because the trees had been felled allowing for more crops and grass, wildlife to prosper, more food and the Indians liked the horses and the cows. and the colonists wanted more land. Bad things happened on both sides. Go to McGuffeysOnlineTutor.com for more. or...

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