Essay!!!!

[Aero]

So, I was hoping to get a little bit of help for an essay I'm working on. I only need people who live outside of the US, though.

What I'm looking for are stories about "Heroes" that you were taught while growing up and going to school. A good example from the US would be Christopher Columbus, the man who "discovered" America. In our textbooks, he's made out to be this brave explorer who set out to discover America and create a land of opportunity, while the fact that he wasn't even looking for America, or that he slaughtered countless Native Americans kind of gets swept under the rug.

Anything you guys can give me would be greatly appreciated.

Yeah. he was actually trying to discover a new route to get Asia. Before people had to go all the way around Afica (which is extremely dangerous). He said that you could simply cut across the Atlantic and China would be right there. He landed closer to South America than he did America. Told Queen of his foundings. Then he set back off to the new world. There they began to cause the suffering of the native people and extract their resources.


Also, he wasn't even the first person to discover the new world. One of the first documented perople to discover the new world, yes, but not the first. Probably nowhere near the first. (Vikings actually discovered North America probably way before he discovered South America).