But this is accurate. Columbus was an explorer, that was his mission. I’ve read his letters to Spain and he wanted to find bounty for the Spanish crown to convince them to give him more money. He murdered, tortured, enslaved kidnapped, interrogated, and raped people to find even more bounty. But he was an explorer, not a conquistador or conqueror. Those were military positions.
This post is ignorant.
Well, Columbus himself didn’t conquer much. He established a few settlement, but the real conquering was done by others.
More accurate comparison would be:
Describe Hernan Cortez in one word.
(GPT-4) Conquistador
Columbus and his men killed a lot of people brutally. He wasn’t really a conqueror, more a murderer and a monster
(Deleted this comment because it wouldn’t hold up to a minute of research.)
