FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS
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Question
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Why did Columbus call the Natives “Indians”?
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Because of the way they dressed.
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Because Queen Isabelle told him to.
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Because he thought he was in the West Indies.
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Because the Natives told Columbus to call them that name.
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -In 1492, Christopher Columbus landed in the Caribbean, unlocking what Europeans quickly came to call the ‘New World’. 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’.
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