3 Famous People Who Changed The World For Better

Lincoln was born on 12 February 1809. He lost his mother at an early age and his father left him. Hence, Lincoln had to do a number of manual labor. He had a thirst for knowledge and this led him to become a self-learned lawyer. He was a person who changed the world with his ideas and actions. He didn’t want slavery to spread. He played a very important role in ensuring that the Union survived its greatest challenge during the American Civil War.

South Africa enforced racial division for a very long time. Blacks were not given the right to vote. When Nelson Mandela was released from prison in 1990, he started negotiations with the then-president Frederik William de Klerk. Apartheid ended when, in 1994, multi-racial elections were held. He had a strong determination that anger over the crimes of the past should never motivate future laws 

Christopher Columbus and his crew of explorers were the first explorers to be heralded for their “discovery” of new lands to the west. His discovery undoubtedly changed history by opening up new lands for the European imperial powers to colonize and conquer, signaling the end of western hemisphere civilizations that were pushed to extinction. New products were introduced such as corn, potatoes, tobacco, etc to the rest of the world, and by laying the foundations for the new states of the western hemisphere.