historical+figures

[|Christopher Columbus] led the first inadvertent expedition to the New World. He was looking for the West Indies, but landed on the huge land masses in his way, the Americas. To the day of his death, he was under the impression that he had gone to India, and not some new undiscovered land.

[|John Winthrop] came to the New World for religious reasons. In addition, he used such religious reasons to further extend the European genocide of the Native Americans. In contrast, [|John Smith] though at first there were hostilities, was able to create a beneficial and peaceful relationship with the Indians.

Christopher Columbus John Smith John Winthrop