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The Top 100 Heroes of Western Culture
These individuals have most contributed to replacing ignorance with knowledge, savagery with civilization, disease with health, tyranny with liberty, poverty with abundance, and despair with happiness.



#56: Christopher Columbus (1451-1506)

Christopher Columbus was a navigator, colonizer and explorer who played a key role in helping to spread civilization across a significant portion of the Earth.

His voyages led to European awareness of the American continents and, more importantly, to the eventual spread of Western culture across much of the discovered area, especially North America.

Without Columbus and his heroic boldness, love of adventure and exceptional navigation skills, the spread of Western culture, including the birth of one of its greatest products, the United States of America, may have been delayed indefinitely or, more likely, never occurred at all.



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