Bartolomeo Columbus (Bartolomé Colón) was the younger brother of Christopher Columbus. Bartolomeo Columbus accompanied Christopher Columbus on his fourth voyage. Upon this voyage, he founded the city of Santo Domingo de Guzmán between 1496 and 1498. This became Santo Domingo, which is the capital of the Dominican Republic. Christopher Columbus (ca. ... Santo Domingo from space, May 1992 Plaza Colón Santo Domingo de Guzmán, population 2,061,200 (2003), estimated 2,253,437 in 2006, is the capital of the Dominican Republic. ...
Columbus is assumed to have been born in Genoa, in modern Italy, according to statements attributed to Columbus himself, members of his family, and others who knew him well.
Columbus returned to Hispaniola on August 19 to find that many of the Spanish settlers of the new colony were discontent, having been misled by Columbus about the supposedly bountiful riches of the new world.
Columbus' struggles to "civilize" the Americas, and the subsequent effects on the native peoples, were dramatised in 1492: Conquest of Paradise to commemorate the 500th anniversary of his landing in the Americas.
Columbus is often credited as the discoverer of the Americas, because 15th century Europe was unaware of their existence, and it is his discovery that created the still-existing bonds between the continents.
Although Friar Bartolome de Las Casas wrote of Columbus's cruelties contemporaneously with Columbus, it was not until the 1960s that Columbus increasingly became used as a symbol of all that was and is wrong with European imperialism--slavery, genocide, and the wholesale destruction of indigenous cultures.
While Columbus cannot be blamed for all of European imperialism, some argue that the misdeeds Columbus committed as viceroy and governor of Spanish-occupied territories in the Americas between 1493 and 1500 are enough for him to be considered guilty of genocide.
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