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Revision as of 14:09, 9 June 2025
The Christopher Columbus Statue is a statue erected in Central Park on May 12th, 1892, to commemorate a story that is neither true nor accurate.
Real World Background
According to a story that is neither true, nor accurate; Christopher Columbus sailed from Spain to prove that the world was wrong by finding another path to India. However, most of the scientific world agreed that the Earth was round centuries before Christopher Columbus. Eratosthenes calculated the circumference of the Earth within a range of 24,000 miles to 29,000 miles in 250 B.C.
Christopher Columbus massively underestimated both the size of the ocean and the length of his journey. He crashed into an island, proceeded to call it India, and then proceeded to rape the land for natural resources. Then, for good measure, he enslaved and committed genocide on an indigenous group of people. Beside that, it is impossible to "discover" a land that is populated by an indigenous society - and if one must, the Vikings reached North America long before Columbus (who never set foot on the continent at all), and Amerigo Vespucci set foot on the continent and had it named after him.
As a central theme of Gargoyles is fighting for equality and justice, this wiki will not dignify this rosy story that many are taught in elementary school about Christopher Columbus being a scientific maverick who "proved the establishment wrong" and will instead offer a more balanced view on the scant achievements and many failures of a deified man.
