The use of good guy or bad guy for a person doesn't make much sense.
I'll just list some major facts about Columbus and let you make your own conclusions.
Christopher Columbus believed the world was round. Others during his time didn't believe so. Columbus also thought that the world was smaller than what it actually is, principally because North America and South America were not yet discovered. Columbus went to many people and asked them to fund him, and finally the King and Queen of Spain funded him. When Columbus reached the Americas, he treated the natives harshly. He took their wealth, such as gold, etc, and made the natives slaves. And he brought back the riches of the Caribbean to Spain. Columbus never knew that he had stumbled across an undiscovered land, and instead thought he had reached India, where he was originally going for, and so he called the natives "Indians."
Hope that helped :)
The United States became an empire in 1945. It is true that in the Spanish-American War, the United States intentionally took control of the Philippines and Cuba. It is also true that it began thinking of itself as an empire, but it really was not.
Some really important events happened in 1940 such as the London blitz and as the Battle of Britain . Hope I have helped
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- The group of Serbian patriots that secretly worked for the liberation of Serbs from the Ottoman rule had named themselves 'Black Hand'.
- Members of this group knowing full well that they would be killed once they are caught, still chose to put their lives in danger for the cause of Serbian nationalism.
- This group of Serb nationals had played a crucial role in the assassination of Franz Ferdinand II (the Archduke of Austria) and that is why this group is also claimed to be responsible for the outbreak of world war I.
