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A Genoese navigator sailing for the Catholic Monarchs, he reached the Americas in 1492 seeking a trade route to the Indies. As colonial governor, he enslaved indigenous people in pursuit of gold and was arrested and sent to Spain in chains for abuses of power.
Political axes
Christopher Columbus leans further toward religious than 99% of the 645 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Religion is where Christopher Columbus stands furthest from the rest.
On Technology, Christopher Columbus sits close to the catalog median.
Here they share common ground with most personalities.
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System in which a metropole rules distant territories and peoples to settle them and extract wealth, imposing an exclusive trade pact, compulsory labor and hierarchy under the pretext of a civilizing or religious mission.
Current that preserves order, tradition, and hierarchy through a strong state, restricting freedoms and political participation in the name of social stability, morality, religion, and established authority.
Defense of monarchy with unlimited power concentrated in the sovereign, legitimized by tradition or divine right, without a constitution or parliament to restrict the king's authority over state and society.
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Anarcho-PacifismAnarchist25%
King of England from 1509 to 1547, Henry VIII broke with Rome through the Act of Supremacy (1534), became head of the Church of England, dissolved the monasteries, centralized power in the Crown under Thomas Cromwell and executed opponents such as Thomas More.
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A parliamentary republic in Eastern Europe, Hungary is governed under so-called illiberal democracy, uniting nationalism, Christian conservatism, sovereignty vis-à-vis the European Union, and strong control of media and institutions.
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Habsburg Spain, especially under Philip II, was a Catholic Counter-Reformation state, marked by the Inquisition, purity-of-blood laws, religious expulsions, and wars defending the faith.
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