Lies My Trainer Advised Me About Christopher Columbus: What Your Historical past Books Bought Improper

Some myths do not die, and lies are nonetheless being instructed about Christopher Columbus: that he “found” the Americas (not solely was the land acquainted to native inhabitants, however it had additionally been visited earlier than by Europeans), that the land was sparsely populated by native folks (there have been fourteen million inhabitants in 1492), that these folks have been primitive (Europeans realized rather a lot and gained expertise and agricultural ability from Native People), and that they submitted to Columbus’s “God-like” authority (they submitted to the lethal smallpox and bubonic plague that Columbus’s crew imported from Europe).

Lies My Trainer Advised Me About Christopher Columbus disproves the myths about Columbus nonetheless enshrined in American textbooks with quotations from main supply materials that units the report straight. The poster and accompanying 48–;web page paperback guide sum up the mistellings―and reveal the actual story―in a graphically interesting and accessible format that reveals the diploma to which textbooks have “lied” by knowingly substituting crowd-pleasing myths for grim and grotesque historic proof.