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He called the people that he first encountered Indians because he thought he had landed in India, due to the fact that people in the Renaissance time didn't know about the "New World" to the west.

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ColumbusNEVER met anyone in America because he didn't get there. He found natives on an island he called Hispaniola and the natives he called Taino. He thought they would make wonderful slaves in the future. They gave him some items and a parrot, but he wanted gold and they didn't have any. So, he cut their hands off.

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He called the North American Natives "Indians" because he was trying to find a quicker route to the Far East, and thought the red-skinned natives he found were southern Asians, as in India.

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Christopher Columbus called the people he met Indians. On his first voyage in 1492 he landed in the Bahama Islands.

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Indians because he thought he was in the indies

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its Indians -_- btw im only 11.

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primitive or savage

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he called them the indians.

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