Christopher Columbus MBTI Personality Type
Personality
What personality type is Christopher Columbus? Christopher Columbus is an ENTP personality type in MBTI, 8w7 - sp/so - 783 in Enneagram, SCUEI in Big 5, ILE in Socionics.
I have here something that may help you type him, it's a fragment of his journal written by no other than himself, explaining his thoughts on the native americans. This might change the way you see him. "I, so that they would be very friendly with us, because I knew that they were people who would be better delivered and converted to our holy Faith by love than by force, gave some of them some colored hoods and some glass beads that they put around their necks, and many other things of little value, with which they took great pleasure and were so much ours that it was marvelous. They then came to the boats of the ships where we were, swimming, and brought us parrots and cotton thread in balls and azagayas and many other things, and they exchanged them for other things that we gave them, such as glass beads and bells. In short, they took and gave everything they had in good will. But it seemed to me that they were very poor people. They all walk around naked as their mother gave birth to them, and so do the women, although I didn't see more than one very pretty one. And all the ones I saw were all young men, none of whom I saw were more than thirty years old; they were very well built, with beautiful bodies and good faces; their hair was as thick as horsetail silk and short; their hair was above their eyebrows, except for a few at the back that were long, which they never cut. Of them they are painted of black, and they are of the color of the canaries neither black nor white, and of them they are painted of white, and of them of colored, and of them of what they find, and of them they paint their faces and of them the whole body, and of them only the eyes, and of them only the nose. They have no weapons, nor do they know them, for I showed them swords, and they took them by the edge and cut themselves with ignorance. They have no iron: their adzes are rods without iron, and some of them have at the end a fish's tooth, and some of other things." -Journal of Christopher Columbus, October 1492 I translated this from spanish using deepl translate, in ase there is any doubt the spanish version is this: "Yo, porque nos tuviesen mucha amistad, porque conocí que era gente que mejor se libraría y convertiría a nuestra santa Fe con amor que no por fuerza, les di a algunos de ellos unos bonetes colorados y unas cuentas de vidrio que se ponían al pescuezo, y otras cosas muchas de poco valor, con que hubieron mucho placer y quedaron tanto nuestros que era maravilla. Los cuales después venían a las barcas de los navíos adonde nos estábamos, nadando, y nos traían papagayos e hilo de algodón en ovillos y azagayas y otras cosas muchas, y nos las trocaban por otras cosas que nos les dábamos, como cuentecillas de vidrio y cascabeles. En fin, todo tomaban y daban de aquello que tenían de buena voluntad. Mas me pareció que era gente muy pobre del todo. Ellos andan todos desnudos como su madre los parió, y también las mujeres, aunque no vi más de una harto moza. Y todos los que yo vi eran todos mancebos, que ninguno vi de edad de más de treinta años: muy bien hechos, de muy hermosos cuerpos y buenas caras: los cabellos gruesos casi como sedas de cola de caballo y cortos: los cabellos traen por encima de las cejas salvo unos pocos detrás que traen largos, que jamás cortan. De ellos se pintan de prieto, y ellos son de la color de los canarios ni negros ni blancos, y de ellos se pintan de blanco, y de ellos de colorado, y de ellos de lo que hallan, y de ellos se pintan las caras y de ellos todo el cuerpo, y de ellos solos los ojos, y de ellos solo el nariz. Ellos no traen armas ni las conocen, porque les mostré espadas y las tomaban por el filo y se cortaban con ignorancia. No tienen algún hierro: sus azagayas son unas varas sin hierro, y algunas de ellas tienen al cabo un diente de pez, y otras de otras cosas." -Diario de Cristobal colón, octubre 1492
Biography
Christopher Columbus (born between August and October 1451 - 20 May 1506) was an Italian explorer and navigator who completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean sponsored by the Catholic Monarchs of Spain, opening the way for the widespread European exploration and colonization of the Americas. His expeditions were the first known European contact with the Caribbean, Central America, and South America.
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