A smart and religious European who claimed to have the fastest route across the Atlantic Ocean is Christopher Columbus. Columbus was so eager to voyage to the America's that he continuously pleaded King Fernindad and Queen Isabella to fund his voyage. He convinced them that he would bring back wealth and claim European land. He was not the first one to discover America, there were already other human beings inhabiting the land. Therefore, Columbus believed that it was right of him to take the indigenous people, make them European slaves, and take over their land. This man did not have a good reputation after brutally attacking those who have never harmed him.