FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS
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Because they asked him to
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Because Columbus thought he had landed in the West Indies.
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Because he liked the name Indians.
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Because he did not understand what they were trying to say.
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Detailed explanation-1: -He did not know there was land in between Europe and Asia, and he ran into the islands in the Caribbean Sea. That is why when he first saw the Taínos, he called them Indians. He thought these islands were off the coast of China.
Detailed explanation-2: -When Christopher Columbus arrived on the Bahamian Island of Guanahani (San Salvador) in 1492, he encountered the Taíno people, whom he described in letters as “naked as the day they were born.” The Taíno had complex hierarchical religious, political, and social systems.
Detailed explanation-3: -Christopher Columbus thought he was in Asia when he landed in the New World because he did not know there was land between Europe and Asia when sailing west.
Detailed explanation-4: -Columbus described the Natives he first encountered as “timid and full of fear.” Why did he then capture some Natives and bring them aboard his ships?
Detailed explanation-5: -Spanish colonists force the Native Taíno people, on pain of death, to perform almost all labor on the island. Christopher Columbus, who needs to demonstrate the wealth of the New World after finding no gold, loads his ship with enslaved Taíno people.