Why should christopher columbus be consider the greatest explorer why or why not?

He was originally supposed to go to India when in fact, he discovered America. As a "Heroic Explorer" he fails. Mistakes like that should not be considered heroic. For all we know, he could have ended up on the Bermuda Triangle and be lost at sea. As for him discovering the land itself, his job also was to report his findings and what he found was a group of individuals that would be perfect to be exploited for the British Elite Monarch. He is an explorer at best but no hero. It really phases me how this is a American Holiday.

Explanation:

the use of email to replace slower surface mail.

in his book, the riddle of the rosetta stone, james giblin talks about how there was a young british polymath and physician named thomas young who made a lot of advances on the deciphering of the rosetta stone. he says that even though young made a lot of mistakes because he was working under false assumptions, he also made huge contributions like deciphering three out of the seven symbols (more than anyone else before him). young published his findings and continued his good work but he wasn't able to progress much further due to some unfavorable situations, he still laid the basis for many other scholars and of course for the man who has been generally known to have deciphered it, jean-françois champollion