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Christopher Columbus, often credited with “discovering” the Americas, can be considered a hero of many. Although Leif Eriksson is thought to have been the first to have sailed across the Atlantic, it was Columbus’s triumphant return that led to the colonization of the New World by Europeans. To those settlers, this meant an escape from poverty, persecution, or prejudice--or even simply a renewed lease on life,