TIL that the Montezuma Castle National Monument in Arizona was named by white settlers who assumed the Aztecs were responsible for all archeological sites but it turns out the monument has nothing to do with Montezuma or the Aztecs and yet no one bothered to rename it.

Those letters were written in old Castilian not modern day Spanish the Brits used that and made propaganda about him and the spanish crown.

So if they had been written in Modern Spanish 500 years ago the Brits wouldn't have used them?

Ofc not all was false.

And the stuff that isn't "false" by your standards is enough to say Fuck Columbus.

A good example of a terrible person with letters in modern day English is Ghandi

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_equivalence

Gandhi, I am assuming is who you mean you do spell it two differing ways neither of them correctly, may have been all those things, but no matter what Gandhi does, it doesn't make Columbus any better or worse as they are separated by hundreds of years and totally different circumstances.

Well leave the native American were scary fuckers them sefls to each other they also wiped each other out.

Unlike your murder of the English language, Native Americans did not "wipe each other out"

It became more honorable for a warrior to touch his enemy (to count “coup”) or steal his horse than to kill him.

Similarly, in 1609, the French explorer Samuel de Champlain fought a battle against the Iroquois, alongside his Montagnais allies. According to his detailed account of the encounter, the military practices were highly ritualistic and governed by strict rules.

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