Question

Describe the misconceptions Christopher Columbus had of the people he called "Indians,"

Answer 1

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we all know that christopher Columbus discovered America.He wanted to reach India but due to some reason he approached America and the first person he saw called that person an Indian because he thought that he had reached India

Answer 2

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Columbus and other Europeans had their own misconceptions. They mistakenly believed that the Arawak were “Indians.” Carroll and Noble write: ... In describing the “Indians,” Europeans focused not on who they were but on who they were not. They then went on to describe what the Indigenous Peoples did not have.