FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS
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Question
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nobody lived there
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people lived there
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a Native American tribe
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captured
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Detailed explanation-1: -Columbus called all the people he met in the islands ‘Indians’, because he was sure that he had reached the Indies. This initial encounter opened up the ‘New World’ to European colonisation, which would come to have a devastating impact on indigenous populations.
Detailed explanation-2: -Columbus encountered land with around two million inhabitants that was previously unknown to Europeans. He thought he had found a new route to the East, so he mistakenly called these people ‘Indians’.
Detailed explanation-3: -The term ‘Indian’ is a misnomer that was used to describe the native Americans by Christopher Colombus. Colombus set out to discover India but ended up discovering America. He took to calling the native Americans ‘Indians’ due to his mistaken assumption of having reached India.
Detailed explanation-4: -Indigenous Peoples are distinct social and cultural groups that share collective ancestral ties to the lands and natural resources where they live, occupy or from which they have been displaced.