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- Adam Ruins Everything - Turns out Christopher Columbus wasn't brave, he was just really bad at math.
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I love how this version of mrs.frizzle tries to scare adam but he pulls a reverse card on her
Same
You could say he ruined the show.
His ships were filled with child labor, all of them got sick immediately and Columbus continued despite his entire crew’s wishes.
He could've just said the Vikings got there first and we would've been done.
I like how people are still replying to this
Yes
And without genocide
Adam: actually
Well they didn’t put it on a map
Nah because Adam wont try sound a like totally genius but reality he's an idiot
Something tells me Adam was the kid in school that everyone hated and reminded the teacher when she forgot to assign homework.
And pointed out when the teacher was wrong, always had his hand up, and ruined EVERYTHING.
@@dillongardner2070 definitely the kind of guy to pickup his wife’s gf and bring him over for dinner.
@Mich107 I don't have enough brain cells to process what you just said
@@dillongardner2070 then you don’t understand a meme
@Mich107 Likely,
Cause I live under a rock lol
I genuinely thought that all of this was common knowledge.
It is, idk why he made this video.
Read the comments, a surprising amount of people are retarded.
the video is WRONG on so many levels
Desirée Rodríguez Please explain in more detail about why this video is wrong?
Some people cant handle the truth.
No joke intended, as that would be cringey.
Teacher: Christo-
Adam: Bing bong that story was wrong!
Hippity Hoppity your lesson is now my property
Kian macatuno true
Some of the natives of the Caribbean were canibals and we don't want to talk about the Aztecs to the Northwest
Yeah, ok, i get what he says at the end of the video but the Question remains:
WHY IS THIS NOT TAUGHT AT SCHOOL LIKE IN THIS VIDEO?!?!
Same for much other stuff on this Channel!!!
Heck, this is important stuff to know.
First most deaths were related to disease witch Columbus had no control over
Adam: The Taino didn’t have any gold!
Animators: *”lets draw them with gold jewelry”*
There are yellow-colored metals that aren’t gold, though.
Those piercings weren’t gold you moron
Well the Taino where all half to full naked so.....
@@beanmann000 like what?
@@notpukicho2950 Bronze
italian guy: we know a guy that knows a guy that discovered american and is italian
captions: we know a guy that knows a guy that discovered america and visit aliens
And when he got back his Queen was so appalled by his treatment of the natives that she threw him in jail.
jeramahia123 actually they threw Chris in jail because he failed to get enough riches for the crown, but i suppose that could be a reason too.
The way I learned it he got thrown in jail mainly because of the way he managed the colony, particularly the handful of noblemen who had come along with him. The lackey returns in terms of wealth didn't help him either though.
@@jeffreybernstein3628 he was a representative of the Spanish Crown. What he did was a reflection of the throne of Spain
2:32 so apparently Canada doesn't exist
Someone 234 As a Canadian,
I can confirm that’s how I feel every time I look at the internet
I thought Canada was a mythical land made up by people who wish for free healthcare
But Leif Erickson went to Vineland first.
Wait people think canada exists??? I thougt I was stupid, but i guess not
What's a "Canada"?
3:31 “what is gold?” While he’s wearing a gold necklace
It's probably a yellow ore
A lot natives had gold but that used it for decoration/jewelry or for religious idols it just they didn’t use it for coin since they trade in goods.
They prob didn’t name it gold...or that was a necklace made from bones of animals (since native Americans don’t like to waste) that turned slightly yellow
@@aidenthesnork3055 Either bronze, or the tribes just used gold for jewels and religious stuff, and since it _used_ to be extremely plentiful, they didn't see value in it
The Taino probably didn't call it gold. Or they didn't really know what it was
I know this is a parody of it, but I have to say RIP Joanna Cole, the author of "The Magic School Bus".
He didn't set foot on america because he didn't stepped in USA?
WHAT ABOUT AMERICA, THE CONTINENT?
He set foot on South America
Wtf, Cuba, Haiti and all those countries are in Central America. He did set foot on America, in the continent. USA is not America. Just stop it. Your country isn't the totality of the world or the continent. Open your eyes
Matheus Cardoso I think he is agreeing with you.
Well, he said America in reference to the country, not the continent. And I think you have to say "Americas" in order to be referring to the continent.
@@Veronicz No... Saying the 'Americas' is something the USA started so that they could call themselves America. But if you google 'all continents' youll see that America is listed as a continent, not the americas.
My teacher ruined it before I could
Really appreciate the in-video citations! I was a history minor but mostly focused on Europe and Russia, this is crazy new news for me. Thanks for sharing.
Teacher: disagrees with Adam most of the time
Also teacher: *agrees with Adam
I love how they didn't include Canada on the map.
Some Canadian Guy gimme all your frickin syrup!
Some Canadian Guy No Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua or any South American countries either.
Canadian Superior medical?!?!?!? LMFAOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL don't confuse availability for quality.
Some Canadian Guy Well that's because Canada is not real, duh!
they didn't need to, they were only talking about the Caribbean and The Americas
"Our people will get more from the idea he represented than from the jelly bean he actually was."
- Rick and Morty writers
Ripper haha so true
I love rick and morty
Our teachers: FINALLY I’m done teaching those children now I gotta relax on a July day...
Adam: *you’re not done yet*
"He never set foot at the US" and....? Cuba is in America.
Also, I think you kinda overlooked the genocide and rape part
Well he included the genocide but skipped all the rapes
@@ronswanson9324 wanna keep that TV-14 rating!
Actually, the supposed genocide was because of unintentional bw. The settlers brought diseases like measles and chickenpox that killed the natives without knowing it.
Oh, and rape was actually forbidden under the law.
@@someone-pp6io unintentional... well no. I mean, in that times conquering terrain and murdering was normal. As they didn't found gold, they came back with slaves to give them to que queen of Spain.
It's true that most of the death were because the plagues, but, it wasnt unintentional all the murdering, it was just the normal thing to do back then
Cuba isn't a part of the U.S.
Columbus: *Hi is this the krusty krab?*
World: *No this is Haiti*
Welp I'll just enslave your people
If you want an counterargument to this video look at knowing better's video "Columbus, an exaggerated evil"
I agree, Columbus isn’t as bad as they portrayed him to be. But I still think that he doesn’t really deserve his own day...
Hi is this America?
No this is Hati.
ANDTHEYDON’TSTOPCOMING ANDTHEYDON’TSTOPCOMING forgot about the rape
This is better than the Netflix version of the magic School bus
Rene G so true. The netflix magic school bus has cheesy animation, and the characters act like complete robots.
R GG it is tho
"I knew I should have stayed home today..."
Adam: Actually, he didn’t arrive in AMERICA, he arrived in america
@Kian 2 And the new world has three parts, north america, central america and south america
@@tristanbeal261 only in united states , on latin america america is one part from alaska to argentina. But as usual they like divide people.
@@ogarcia2672 I will add in Europe, America is also Alaska to Patagonia. Only in USA they think only they are America. The term America was in honor of Americio Vespucio or Americo Vespucci, who supposely first sight the coast of San Salvador.
The new lands were called the New World at first but the term America started getting popular in Europe becouse of the writings of Vespucci about the travels and people started callin America to the New continent way before they even know north-america was there. No, Columbus never put a foot in USA but he really got to America (not saying discovering, the natives allready knew it and could be previous travels from vikings from europe). In USA they are so self absrob they don´t realize is a bigger orld out there.
Yes, the confusion of homonyms, Adam is talking about the US, not the Americas in this video. If you watch his show then you can see the stuff he talks about pertain only to the US, such as his videos on taxing and tipping. (Or like the ton of videos where he mentions companies bribing the US government)
@@tchuxferenczy8669 look at my previous comment lol, only people with sticks up there ass say things like "only Americans think everything is about their nation" on a video about America (USA)
America is a continental landmass, USA is a country
And was named after the guy that mapped it, Amerigo Vespucci.
Most of the world knows this, but in the USA they refuse to see it, funny if you think about the MAGA folks, reminds me a bit of what they do with football (soccer...)
And you are a continental nerd
Gerald Bodden bold of you to assume all of us who live in the US are the same
I was looking for this comment :/
Thanks for this. As a Dominican it's really annoying to hear all those lies being spewed by foreign people.
joko49perez I feel you.
Yeah I don't know why they teach us this stuff in America
Because it's pure propaganda. It's another myth in service of inflating Europeans' self-image and hiding grievous incompetence and failure.
Bro if Europeans didnt get to america the natives would still be making hundreds of sacrifices atop their pyramids and the phones you guys are typing this bs wouldn't have been invented
@@ftferlo8868 that's really dumb
"We dont have any gold" is literally wearing gold
Not real gold common ore that look like gold he came to the caribbean
Columbus: "I did my calculations *but man am I bad at math."*
A C T U A L L Y
When people say Americas they don’t mean the US.
The continents are both named America (north/south) therefore he did step foot on America.
WuzNab I know I hate when people say he didn’t go to America.
Edit- changed “discover” to “go to” cause I forgot he died thinking he found India
@@liamm8447 He didnt. Lief Eriksen did. The difference being Colombus had far more influence.
Thalmor Wizard um then what about the people from Eastern Asia who came to the Americas 30,000yrs ago?
Leif Ericson was one of the first Europeans to set foot in the Americas, but I'm pretty sure the First Nations people kinda discovered the Americas first.
@@henryvanh9961 You are correct. However, that knowledge had been passed off as myth and was largely forgotten by Columbus's time.
He never got past the Caribbean islands, in fact he was completely unaware of the continent he would have found if he sailed a little further. As the Caribbean islands are not part of the American continent, he never discovered, found after, or any other technicality to do with that landmass. Or at least that is the mindset Adam is taking, as I am pretty sure he only fumbled on the usa thing. In reality he did land in north America, hanging around for a few weeks, and later central America where he hung around for about 4 months trying to find a way west.
The real holiday should be for Amerigo Vespucci, the man who proved America wasn't Asia, and actually acted more like the romantic idea of what an adventurer should do
shanefm02 I thought just the same thing.
shanefm02 Not to mention he was also the man that America is literally named after.
And didn't needlessly kill innocent people.
He was also the one who mapped a large majority of the east coast.
Nah brah, native americans found america
"Say hi Edward... kill me"
Made me die of laughter XD
Why does Columbus of all people get a day
So that insecure white people can have the closest thing possible to White History month. That's why.
@@dylans.1741 umm... what? How does this have anything to do with having white history month? Its a literal day and is about a spanish dude which is typically classified as hispanic not white
Edit: nevermind im stupid, you were obviously joking lol (youd have to be dumber then a Karen to believe that)
Edit 2: Its also been a thing for over 100 years before black history month (although not official it was celebrated by italian immigrants) just wanted to point that out just in case you were actually serious
5:00
So funny lol
"This is NYC! We hate pizza, and always will hate it"
Francesco Armetta at least they can feed turtles.
Pizza with tomato is Spanish Pizza.. Spanish Explorers put tomato originally FROM MEXICO on Greek Cheese Pitza Pies (what you call Pizza) when they conquered Mexico around year 1520.. , making it a Spanish Food, not Italian as you are lied to everyday. And Pizza (Greek Pitza pie) is old as Grecia (Greek). Its just a wheat pie with cheese and oil on top. That is Not Italian either. Italians crooks as they like to be, changed the name from Greek Pitza- to "Pizza". Italians have been fooling you, suckers..
@@feetgoaroundfullflapsC actually no. yes, tomato comes from america but it wasn't the tomato we know now. it was a yellow berry. that's why in italy tomatoes are called "pomodoro" wich means gold apple. The tomato we know now was crossed with other plants in the region of campania (in the agro nocerino) and only then it was a red berry with sweet falvor. Then the napolitan created the first pizza by using the pitsa (a baked bread that was etruscan), mozzarella (the tipical italian cheese) and the tomato sauce.
@@umbumb715 Bullshittt.. In 1554 an Italian herbalist talks about a red tomato variety the Spanish brought to Napoli. Napoli was controlled by The Borgias Family of Spain. You are Columbusing (Claiming you discovered something discovered by others before).. -- Liar...
@@feetgoaroundfullflapsC They describe a green yellow fruit brought by the spanish and they even thought that was a special tipe of eggplant. the first mention of a red tomato was in the book written by the medic Pietro Andrea Mattioli in his book "commento a Dioscoride" in 1574.
By the way i'm not saying that spanish didn't discovered tomatoes. that was a really great spanish discovery brought to europe by cortez and italy would not be the same without it. I'm just saying that italians modified it a little so that the fruit can have that bright red color. And they didn't even do that because they wanted to eat it. until 1280 everyone in italy tought that tomatoes where toxic and the plants where used only for aesthetics. Tomatoes where ornamental plant. italians made them red only because they wanted them to be cuter.
also, vikings had already been to America several times before Colombus
EMMANIAC, what about the native Americans
EMMANIAC Yeah but they didn't discover it
Supreme Disappointment Shin Sure they did, they did cross the land bridge thousands of years ago, that's when humans discovered North America.
Just got to love how Vikings discovered what most people would consider the US and Canada, but kept poor records of where it was and everything like that. If I remember correctly it was basically like " hey I went to this one land mass over to the west" and another Viking would be like " okay, cool story" and left it at that.
That's not what I'm implying? I'm just saying that lots of people had travelled to the Americas long before him. I don't think you could even "discover" America, as it was already populated.
fun fact: columbus (who's real name was cristoforo colombo) was an italian merchant who only wanted to demonstrate that he could get from portugal to china going the other way around, he didn't know where he was, so he thought he landed in china, that man only wanted some spices, he didn't kill a soul, the genocide of the so-called american indians was committed by english, spanish, portoguese and french
I showed this video to my little sister. And then her teacher went ahead and said that Christopher Columbus discovered America and proved that the earth was round. She didn't correct her teacher, but she did tell her that he was a murderer.
I mean, technically Columbus did find the small parts of South America without ever realizing or caring that he found a new land, which led to other voyagers coming to America and actually realizing they found a new land. That was the only good thing to come out of this. Columbus was no hero. He was just the start of a chain reaction. Really, we should've made a Holiday about Amerigo Vespucci, the voyager who played such a major role in the Age of Discovery, America was literally named after him!
Better than the magic school bus Netflix reboot
Yeah
Better effort.
Better animation
Big Bang Review Pappa John
I'm in Australia where Netflix charges twice as much and gives us half as many things to watch.
What the heck is this? Magic school bus reboot? Why do I get a creepy "Veggie Tales" vibe from that?
Taino peeps: What is gold?
Taino peeps: *wearing gold*
Roberto Neves yeah the animation department wasn't on their a-game this episode.
wait who discovered Europe in 600 bc i know for sure the natives of the americas did not have good enough ships to travel that far
Not all that glitters is gold though. there are other alloys that look similar to gold.
Bronze for example (which most civilisations learn of very early) looks similar, and at this level of detail in the animation, it would probably look the same.
TheGhost What?
Yeah, it was probs bronze or brass
Amerigo vespucci:
Am i a joke to you?
Yes, apparently. I have no idea why you weren't given the holiday.
Sidenote: Danish vikings where the first europeans to Discovery America
Yeah but they only stayed in Newfoundland and never properly explored the area and eventually forgot about it so...
yes ur right colombus wasnt the first to discovery ameica
@@joshuawall646 yeah we probably should have wrote more shit down
Columbus wasn't the first European to discover the america's either. Leif Erikson arrived in what is now Canada in 1000 A.D
Yeah, but all he did was make a settlement and stay there for while, and then leave. They didn't really have much impact OnAmerica. Although, Columbus was the first to start colonizing the continent and make it known to the world that it existed.
EDIT:My bad, amerigo vespucci was the one to make it known to the world. Columbus was the first to have a major impact on the continent, though.
And the Vikings also found it before Columbus as well.
Who cares. They didn't recognize it as a new land aka Columbus was the first
@@samuelfelty no, it wasn't until amerigo vespucci went to the americas and discovered it was a different land. That's why it is called north and south america. Both named in honor of amerigo vespucci. All columbus did was guide the way by killing a bunch of ppl for stuff like turkeys, pineapples, and hammocks,
“HAPPY LEAF ERIKSON DAY”-Spongebob
well i learned all of this in history class but then again i was taught in jamaica
one of those countries he visited and enslaved and slaughtered indigenous people and founded one of the many islands that started the slave trade... the more you know
And he landed in the Bahamas.
Chris Bell hate to tell ya bro slave trading has been going on for awhile before Columbus
Bananas14 maybe I'm just too old for that to be true, but most of this I didn't learn till after high school. And I'm from Ohio
I believe it is now an Ohio standard could be wrong though
3:30 The thing you're wearing, maybe?
4:16 Also, he found out he reached America before he died. He wasn't THAT stupid.
I don’t actually think he did
Firestardude Not "America", but he realized "lmao this is the wrong place, but we'll pillage it anyways and tell everyone we found india"
Maps well into the 16th century were referring to North America as "New India." Columbus was one of the first to suspect that he had found an entirely new continent.
He wasn't stupid at all*
Also the vikings discovered America.
BlueTwo they didn't tell anyone and didn't come back so? I'm sure the people that drove the Vikings out discovered it long before they did.
And Columbus and explorers of his time created a link to the New world and "discovered" America. Technically the natives were there first and some vikings have been there first but if it wasn't for Columbus then Europe and the Americas wouldn't have been connected
Josh Voelkner and natives would own there land and there wouldn't of been smallpox
italian guy and they would continue to live 1000 years in the past and wouldn't developed tools and technologies up to par with ones in England at the time for hundreds of years or if at all. And Europe would suffer too, without new land,crops and technologies and ideas the natives had.
BlueTwo LEIF!!ERIKSSON!!
Also, he wasn't even the first European to visit the Americas. The Vikings beat him by 500 years.
NationalismBG The vikings got to North America, Colombus got to South America or more exactly The caribbean
He wasn't the first European?
GoldenGames360 the Vikings made it to Canada way before Columbus was born
They found evidence of Vikings up in Newfoundland centuries before Columbus arrived in the New World.
Isabella Felix ‘AMERICAS’
Anyone notice the 8+7=11 at 1:06 😂🤣
What we were taught in highschool history class: Columbus discovered America.
Adam: well in truth No.
So.. Christopher Columbus didn't discover America, find the fountain of youth, invent the metric system, prove that the earth is hollow and full of pot addicted mole men who hate us for our Frito's, married American flag maker Diana Ross, won the Civil War for the south, then fooled the north into THINKING they won, and eventually became the award winning writer and director of such cherished films as Gremlins, Home Alone, Jingle all the way, and of course, Gone with the wind?
Damn these DeVos history textbook correction stickers!!!!
No you are actually entirely correct. Columbus just eventually rewrote the history books to make him look like an idiot so no one would catch onto him.
damn
Lol same
Rotepter Same here 👋
lol never thought i'd see you here haha dragonball fan haha found you through quaaman
Oh like ur vids
JaxBlade woah jaxblade watches this......
Every time he affirms "Columbus never set foot in America" I get a bit more disgusted by how US Americans see the world around them
This whole video is predicated on the idea that Columbus made claims, THAT HE DIDN'T MAKE
Well actually if you read his accounts and accounts from that time, most of the stuff in this video happened. The video is of course a bit exaggerated for comical relief, as are most of Adams videos. The thing about him thinking the earth is a pear seems really off. But the atrocities definitely happened. People that were good friends and even glorified Columbus said that he went to far. Columbus also described how his men would rape 9 year old girls.
Chase, read a book, snowflake.
@@iminavegetativestatestudio1730 Columbus never said that he was the first person to say that the globe was around. That's pretty stupid. People have known the globe was around since ancient Egypt
I'm In A Vegetative State Help me Barely any of it is really true. This video is a joke. Columbus thought the earth was a lot smaller than what scientists and other explorers thought it was. He brought barely any supplies and the pear is completely false. So he already knew the earth was round.
Thank you!
For Columbus Day this year, our AP World History teacher had us analyze Columbus' horrible and terrifying deeds. We learned that he's a murderous sadist as well as a fool.
Actually, Adam, there might be one fact in which you overlooked when it came to Columbus' occupation of Hispaniola: that diseases in which Columbus and his men brought exterminated the majority of the Taíno. Even with mass slaughter campaigns executed by swords, armor, and guns, it would be impossible for a smaller group of men to exterminate thousands of indigenous people with that alone. More indirect yet equally lethal factors, especially disease-inflicting pathogens, would have contributed more to the Taínos' extinction than sheer violence alone. Simply put, the Taíno lived in a rather isolated society when livestock bore negligible presence. Animals can carry diseases that evolve to infect humans as well, but through exposure to such diseases, humans can develop immunity. The Taíno were never exposed to such prerequisite conditions nor diseases and thus did not evolve to acquire such immunity against diseases from Columbus' homeland. Columbus lived in an area that traditionally cultivated livestock as a food and fiber source. His people bore the uses as well as the diseases from those animals. Several diseases ravaged those people, yet some managed to survive and develop biological resistance. Compared to the Taíno, Columbus' party had a pathological advantage. When a people not previously exposed to a certain disease for a long enough period of time to acquire immunity becomes afflicted with it, they die. It is noted that 90% of the Taíno died from smallpox by 1548, although killings, enslavement, and rape did constitute another 10% of the brutality. Professor Jared Diamond's "Guns, Germs, and Steel" can indubitably confirm this.
Columbus was not in charge for very long on the ground in Hispaniola. Excluding the Spanish themselves, Columbus was responsible for the deaths of a few thousand natives and mostly through trying to enslave them but having them die of diseases on the way back to Europe. The Spanish crews and settlers hated the Italian Columbus. They tried to mutiny on the first voyage and gave him continuous problems until they drove him away.
First voyage, Columbus was only in the Carribean from late October 1492 until mid January 1493. The men Columbus left behind after his first voyage died and their settlement burnt to the ground.
The only time Columbus was in charge on the ground in Hispaniola was during his second visit. Columbus returned to the Americas from November 3, 1493 until March 10, 1496. By the end of 1494, two-thirds of the Spanish settlers were dead and the settlement was in chaos. In late 1494, the Spanish monarchs were told there was no gold. Most of the rest of the time Columbus was sick.
Columbus was not in charge in Hispaniola during his third or fourth trips. On August 19, 1498 (third voyage), Columbus arrived back in Hispaniola only to find the remaining settlers were in rebellion. He was taken back to Spain in chains. The chains were at his request. He was put on trial, his governorship was revoked, and he was thrown in jail. He made sure to wear clothing to show off the scars made by the chains.
He went on a fourth voyage. The king and queen had forbidden him from even visiting Hispaniola, but Columbus went there anyway because he had been stuck in Jamaica for a year. The current governor of the Spanish colony tried unsuccessfully to get the natives to kill Columbus and then fought Columbus himself.
The brutalities of the Spanish colonies in the Americas were due to subsequent lesser-known governors. Columbus, a guy in charge for a bit and then thrown in jail, wasn't representative. A proper analysis would take a sampling of the later governors and discuss how they behaved towards the natives.
When he honked the bus horn I expected the teacher to yell “seatbelts everyone”
*This inraged Columbus, who punished them severely.*
Taino: what is gold?
Also Taino: *wearing a gold necklace*
aidenthesnork shut up
admiralty brass
It wouldn’t have had the same value for them since they didn’t use a currency based system, likely used only for decoration due to its shininess, but also brass exists
Fools gold?
it could be brass you know
Don't forget Portugal didn't give him the money first and then the Spanish did
Well, Portugal didn't gave him the money because we already had a route to India, by going around Africa. So his plan was basically useless to the portuguese.
iloper he first tried to convince the British and the French.
And so south america is also america. America contains such north, central and south america, it isn't only united states
What is this magellan?
@@brunoss.3273 too bad for them in the end i guess
3:28 What is gold? HE IS WEARING A GOLDEN NECLACE
Different terminology probably, they spoke different languages
A.M.M.O It’s a common ore that looks like gold
I never heard that Columbus “Discovered the earth was round” I only heard that he “Discover America”
Only in English is the U.S. "America". In Spanish it refers to the whole continent.
That's a common mistake U.S. citizens and even foreign people make.
Nadia Jones
The rest of the world believes that the 2 continents are North & South America. Only South Americans believe that America is one big continent
in English America is a continent
in American English it's a country
Pretty sure the whole of Europe also call people from the USA, Americans.
Actually, we also use America in Spanish to refer to the U.S. just as we use "Americanos" when talking about people from the U.S.
Haha haha magic school bus
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SPANK A PLANKTON TOO
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My teacher told our class Christopher Columbus discovered America and I legit said
“Um that like not true,watch college humor.”
Dumbass
Despite him being totally wrong that the Earth was shaped like a pear, he wasn't stupid for coming up with the idea. The earth is overall not level by elevation, theres multiple valleys, trenches, and mountains, in fact with accurate elevations, the Earth is slightly oval shaped.
When people say "Christopher Colombus discovered america" i think they mean the continent of the Americas, not the united stated of America.
Yes, I thought this was common knowledge. I thought most of the video was common knowledge.
That Columbus reached parts of Central America, thought that he had reached India and also slaughtered a lot of people is common knowledge in Spain.
TØMAS well, it is still false ni matter what you or people mean.....ya know
my teacher never said colombus discovered america instead somebody else
Actually he believed he was in India, the "real discoverer" was Amerigo Vespucci, that discovered Columbus reached two new continents. So they named the contintents Americas after him. Yeah the vikings reached them first but they didn't stay there for long and didn't say to the world that they discovered new lands, probably they didn't even know where they were. Sincerely I don't understand why people don't praise Amerigo Vespucci (italian too) instead of Columbus. But probably cartographers are less cool than explorers. Anyway Columbus behaved like a man of his time, and at least catholics tried to convert slaves and native americans instead of just killing them because believed they were evil like calvinists did....
And Vikings were in Canada before
America is the name of the whole continent not only of the United States.
Melody Clark not in English, it comes from poor, but deliberate, public schooling in the United States.
theres south america and north america. separate continents, together they are called the americas. people in the united states are called americans, but in your country im sure you just call them the gringos
Melody Clark your fucking country's name is literally United States of America. Not "America" in english oh my god
PhaseGamer the term "gringo" differs in meanings, in my country it refers to a person with blonde hair. A person with white skin but dark brown or black hair won't be called gringo, even though this person is from the USA. We call people from the US, estadounidense not American (Americans)
deadpools
Americas = Continent
America = Country
Shut up please.
“I knew I should have remained absent today...”.
I love how in the begging Adams tied up
Adam was the kid in school who had glasses a mop hair buck teeth a weasily voice and snorts “Ackchually”
It’s fucking true
And wore the same Mario shirt every day
but was right most times. :D
Take that, loser.
also me
@@phobiahd9954 citation
The New World was called AMERICA! That includes the Caribean North and South America ect... Long before the United States came a country. You gotta really do your research after watching Adam Ruins Everything.
Alternative title Adam ruins his career
3:31: "what is gold?"
Also Natives: * wearing gold jewelry *
it’s horrible how they make him seem so great and powerful we even have a holiday for home when he is really a monster
They haven't been teaching about Columbus as a hero for a while now or at least when I was taught about him it was like this and that was in around 2009. Maybe I just had an honest history teacher...
Danny I was taught in 2008 and my called him a hero discovered America etc.
FleeTurtle Weird, they made it specificly clear for me in seventh grade he was an idiot.
No No Same.
Danny
I don't remember much, but I remember Columbus being celebrated and a movie glorifying Columbus.
In that movie Columbus had a perilous voyage trying to find a trip to India and he found and was helped by stereotypical Thanksgiving style Native Americans. He made it back to England and Europe set out to explore the brave new world.
It's political correctness, not honesty. Basically the "Black Legend" is based off the exaggerated writings of one commentator.
"Never let the truth get in the way of a good story" Chopper Reed (Australian stand over man and author). Another person who killed all the people who really know the truth about him and everyone still loves the legend.
"oh,i want to help...but what is Gold?"
It's literaly on your neck.
Fake gold...?
America is a continent not just the USA...
America is the United States in English.
there are 2 continents called america the reason there's 2 is cause geography says so.
there is a country called the united states of america which gets shorten to america.
Melody Clark That doesn't make sense
In the English language the word America primarily refers to the United States.
WhiteTrashPlayz Thank you
Hey today is Christopher Columbus Day when I'm watching lol.
Tbh, no one really cares besides the day off that he brings...
i likes stuffs it was 2 months ago!!
*smacks lips* You like? (;;
Christopher Columbus O_O
Evelyn W Yes? Got a problem?
“GAH! This is New York City! We hate pizza and we will ALWAYS hate pizza!” 😂🍕
Adam: Says they didn’t have gold
Also Adam: Had the Taino people drawn with golden jewelry and necklaces
They could’ve been animal bones (they don’t stay white)
Or it could be that they didn’t know it was even called gold.
*Reads the title*
Murderous Moron is a little too much isn't it ?
*Watches the video*
Murderous Moron it is !!
89Crono Makes u mad, doesn't it ?
Don't Read My Profile Picture hooray for being open minded! +1 Internet for being woke
Yeah, especially since he ended up getting pardoned.
Don't Read My Profile Picture That's not what happened, they didn't have him the money the first money
Don't Read My Profile Picture I already fail for your scam in another video, don't go to this guy's channel y'all!!!!!!
"Never set foot in America ... non of the countries he set foot in were in the United States" Classic American, thinks America is a country, not two continents
One... i think
@@DahianaG North and South
@@jamesgiles6134 it's just one
@@CheesecakeAndMatcha Just double checked for you, there are 7 continents and north and south are two separate continents
They meant North America/U.S.A, and didn't know what North And South America Was
Uncle Sam: This is America we hate pizza and we’ll always hate pizza
*well that didn’t age well did it*
Glad I found someone talking about this BEAUTIFUL joke
While most of what he said is right, "never stepped foot in America" depends on what you consider America. In many countries, "America" means all of the New World. Also, the country obviously didn't exist at the time, but if he means that he never stepped foot on what would later be America, I'm pretty certain we owned Cuba at one point.
Who controlled it after we won the Spanish American war?
RRW he means america the country edition
flash 98449 He is supposed to be dispelling myths tought in schools and other educational institutions. I have NEVER heard anyone claim that Columbus discovered the US. I occasionally hear that he discovered America, but as I said, that doesn't always mean the same thing.
He didn’t discover anything. All of those lands already occupied by the natives long before he set foot there.
Mark Venditti That's like saying the British in WW2 never discovered how to crack the Enigma because the Germans already knew how.
Wait do North Americans REALLY believe that? I thought Adam's explanation is the basic knowledge there. And Columbus day? WTF
RyanFerdinand not all. Some in the US maybe but then not even all.
he did conquer... and spaniards DID discover America... even if he "murder" people... is still an achievement!!... that we have to look at from an historical point of view... it was 500 years ago, and it does not affect us today!!
American education sucks.
No. We are taught in school about him killing the natives
At least when I was in school, it sort of goes in tiers. When you're tiny, Columbus was a great hero who discovered America while trying to find India! By the time you hit 5th grade (about 10-11 years old) the "Well, actually" begins. Well, actually, the Vikings made it to Vinland about 500 years earlier. Well, actually, Columbus wasn't trying to prove the Earth was round so much as prove he could get to India cheaper and faster. We didn't find out about the raping and pillaging of natives until High School and even then, it's only the Honors and AP classes. I can only assume that it's because before then, they don't think students are mature enough to handle the truth and nuance. Or something.
There's a similar cycle with our stories about the first Thanksgiving and our founding fathers. It's all folk stories during your formative years, and then they slowly break out the Well, Actually.
If you're lucky.
I should point out that I'm in my mid-30's, so I hope it's different now, but when I was in school in the 80's and 90's, that's absolutely how it went. I can imagine some older teachers still sticking to the sanitized version.
You didn't even get to the part where he cut the natives hands off and forced them to wear them around their necks.
Yeah and how the natives were forced to were bells on their necks and if they didnt fill them up by the end of the time, they would be slaughtered.
leonardi rutherfurd well on TH-cam u can only include so much gore in your video
Eh- I think you confused Columbus' settlers for the Belgians who occupied Congo.
The Belgians were the only ones who had a norm of cutting off hands, while on the other hand any other settling power, including Spain, banned that and created laws against slave abuse.
He didn't get to that part because it wasn't true.
Columbus set that rule for the SPANISH. Spanish nobles used connections and bribes to get appointed to head Economendiendas--basically, plantation towns, to grow tobacco or sugar. Columbus was the governor, and these guys would make a fortune and then skip out on the taxes that it was his job to collect. So he started up that little system as a reminder.
Keep in mind these guys made a fortune by exploiting the shit out of the natives, and Columbus was only upset because he didn't get his cut--but nonetheless, he wasn't doing the old King-of-Belgium thing.
To be fair, to people outside the U.S.A., Columbus did discover America, as for many people America refers to the American Continent not the US. Also, Columbus thought the Earth was smaller due to an existing map from an Italian cartographer, Tuscanelli or something of the sort, which showed the Earth as 8 thousand kilometres smaller at the equator.
Except Columbus was popular even before Irving. Hence the reason we named our capital the District of Columbia already in 1790. The Italians encouraged it but Columbus was always a hero until we started caring more about the Indigenous Peoples in the last half century.
America and The Americas are both correct names. The confusion comes because the USA named itself with that ambiguos name and their people start calling their country as America.
When it comes to names you can always use the original or the translation, both are correct.
Benja asdf Ambiguous is the key word. Mexico are also united states of America because they are a united states of Mexico country and they are in America. The USA does not really have its own exclusive name.
Colón arrived at Puerto Rico in 1493. Technically he discovered America. 2:27 😂😂😂
Uncle Sam: This is New York. We hate pizza and always will.
New Yorkers a decade later: So that was a fucking lie.
ahem... central america is america folks
but its not AMERICAAAAAAAA
But the point was that he was made falsely famous for discovering the USA
You do know that Puerto Rico is part of the US, right? Also, there are other U.S. islands in the Caribbean which Columbus visited. You reversed it, tho. The U.S.A. a.k.a. U.S. or America where what the world refers to as Americans come from is perfectly described by either name. When you "travel to America" everyone knows where you are going. What Columbus could never claim is that he discovered it when people were already living there and Europeans had visited hundreds of years earlier. He rediscovered it at a time when more Europeans had better ships and were able to map it.
if anything that just means we should conquer central america
David Jentjens no, it’s part of The America’s
Man when you say that Columbus never set foot in America who would have thought that you referred to the egocentric way USA's citizens refer to the United States of America?
When people say Columbus reached America they do not refer to the USA, that is common knowledge.
Smalde Jesus you people get upset over a fucking name. America is a shortened version of United States of America, similar to how US is the abbreviated of it.
Gopher yeah I was stupid
Smalde It's okay. I'm sick of hearing people say that
He said that Columbus never set foot in the United states
I’m sick of listening this too
This is why it’s not called coloumbus day anymore.
Adam: *becomes a teacher*
The school: oh no 🤦♂️
Are we pretending Cuba and Puerto Rico are in Australia instead? Alrighty, just making sure.
I know, right?!
I honestly didn't catch that bit, haha
🤣🤣👏👏👏👏👏
Naaa they are in Asia
Columbus said; All the caribbean is in Asia,,.. Pass the word.
😂😂😂"I turn them in to iguanas"😂😂😂
Some one breaths*
Adam: AC T U A L L Y
Teacher 👩🏫: u know what happens to mouthy students
Adam : they get extra credit?
Teacher : I TURN THEM IN TO IGUANAS 🦎
Iguana : HeLp mE
So...without Christopher Columbus, there would be no pizza in America?
Snipe M.D Yep
Genocide is okay if it is over pizza
Another reason he deserves a day, along with discovering North America.
Pizza came along later on when they remade tomato pies