Columbus Day

       Columbus day is a day when they celebrate when a man Christopher Columbus came and discovered  what he called a “new world” on October12,1492. This day is to celebrate his achievements and the heritage. At first Christopher Columbus was to sail out to India in the western sea route but he ended up going to and landing in the Bahamas. He was the first European man to explore the Americans. Columbus thought that he was in China and Other times in Japan and India but in reality he was in in Cuba and all these other countries. Columbus was so excited for all that he found and went back to Spain showed the king and queen all the goods he found like gold and other spices that they didn’t have in their country. He had even found people there which he called “Indians” but they were actually Native Americans. He found and discovered new things but he wasn’t the first one to be there.

Reflection: My thoughts about this is that he shouldn’t get that much credit for what he did because he wasn’t the first one to discover this land because Native Americans were already living here. All he did was take things way from this land and he got all the credit. Also, since he “discovered” it, it caused more people to want to come here and fool the people on this land and make them dissappear.