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1. What is the “most lasting damage to Columbus’s reputation” (par. 2) according to Laurence Bergreen? Why did this indictment find “a receptive audience in Spain’s nascent rival, England” (par. 6)?

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   Questions: - What is the “most lasting damage to Columbus’s reputation” (par. 2) according to Laurence Bergreen? Why did this indictment find “a receptive audience in Spain’s nascent rival, England” (par. 6)?
2. What do you think Bergreen means when he claims that Columbus’s “example and his voyages answered an unceasing need for self-definition and identity” (par. 10) for Americans?

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   Questions: - What do you think Bergreen means when he claims that Columbus’s “example and his voyages answered an unceasing need for self-definition and identity” (par. 10) for Americans?
3. Do you agree with Bergreen that “it is too late to undo the consequences of these voyages” (par. 12)?

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   Questions: - Do you agree with Bergreen that “it is too late to undo the consequences of these voyages” (par. 12)?
4. What point is Bergreen making by his reference to the Columbus Monument in New York City’s Columbus Circle, and specifically to its inscription? How does knowing that Italian sculptor Gaetano Russo undertook the statue of Christopher Columbus in honor of the four hundredth anniversary of his New World discovery inform your response?

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   Questions: - What point is Bergreen making by his reference to the Columbus Monument in New York City’s Columbus Circle, and specifically to its inscription? How does knowing that Italian sculptor Gaetano Russo undertook the statue of Christopher Columbus in honor of the four hundredth anniversary of his New World discovery inform your response?
5. Overall, what is Bergreen’s opinion of the legacy of Columbus in “our contentious era” (par. 14)?

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   Questions: - Overall, what is Bergreen’s opinion of the legacy of Columbus in “our contentious era” (par. 14)?