When Columbus returned to Europe, he aided in establishing the Transatlantic Slave Trade and further colonization of the, "New World".
The explorer and his men also spread several viruses which they were infected with from the densely populated cities of Europe which the Indigenous were not immune to, resulting in more death by illness. Colombo proceeded to ransack, pillage and raid the Caribbean while murdering, assaulting and enslaving countless indigenous peoples and destroying their cultures. While otherwise, Colon's mathematical error would have resulted in the death of his crew, by sheer luck, Columbus' vessels happened upon the Caribbean which Cristoforo declared as, "India". At the time, most the world believed that there was no other continent on the other side of the Ocean and that to sail there was a death-wish, however due to a mathematical error Columbus believed that the Earth was pear-shaped and that he could navigate a way to India. Under the auspices of the Catholic Monarchs of Spain, he completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean. Colombo was born in the Republic of Genoa (today part of Italy).
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