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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No matter what Christopher Columbus did, it was his exploration which opened up the New World.  Sure, it would have happened anyway, but this is when it really started.  [/quote]

Fine. Great explorer, terrible person. Why only mention the first fact?[/quote]

so you think third graders should be told his men all raped the Indian women?[/quote]

NP - I think the point is you can't "pick and choose" history. [/quote]

such a thing as time and place appropriateness though for teaching the facts[/quote]

You can still teach in an age appropriate way. Not teaching or hiding the facts is not acceptable. [/quote]

I spent an entire college semester studying how bad Columbus was along with all the other sailors who came to the new world. At the end I walked away with the knowledge that raping and pillaging was typical of many conquests of that age including those of Indians to each other. Columbus didn't stand out to me as worse than any other explorer or war hero of the time. I still celebrate the discovery of the new world whether he realized it or not.[/quote]

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