What's the veredict on this fellow, Veeky Forumstorians?

What's the veredict on this fellow, Veeky Forumstorians?
Was he really that bad?

Yes

Really, really. And no, not everyone was like that in the 15th century.

Well people of the time complained of his abuse of the natives and of other europeans

No, the weak should fear the strong

Genocidal maniac, too far for even a colonial age fag.

>all these SJWs ITT

>being this contrarian

the guy slaughtered children

He was a hero. All the claims about his brutality are just modern anti Italian propaganda.

t. Paulie

Yes, he inflicted an enormous amount of suffering on sapient beings like ourselves which went beyond the customs of the time. The level of brutality he used to obtain gold was excessive and possibly even counterproductive.

In his defense it may have been exaggerated by his political enemies, he made peaceful contact with the first tribe he met and on his 2nd voyage he discovered the crew he had to leave behind had been slaughtered and said tribe were dispersed by a hostile tribe, regardless things deteriorated later on.

One of the worst humans to ever walk the face of the Earth.

t. Luigi

Yes, he was a pretty big asshole. Even for the 15th century he was a piece of work.

Probably not. Everything's relative.

Who's the guy?

He invented the pizza, I think.

He was a hero

Then he's awesome. I love pizza.

t. pizza tosser

Sauce?

His contemporaries thought he was a bit off and he wasn't the greatest navigator. He deserves a place in history for having balls of steel to cross the Atlantic but that's about it.

So just like the savage natives did, huh huh?