Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
287 | Jean-Paul Faguet on Institutions and the Legacy of History
Jean-Paul Faguet
So the Columbus sails over and discovers Hispaniola, which is now Dominican Republic in Haiti. And pretty quickly they kind of run out of room in the sense of an empire that can sustain itself. And there's not that much gold there. Columbus dies thinking he made it to India, right? He's convinced he's in the Indies as in Asia. So he never actually realized where he was.
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