why are the natives of South American continent called as the Red Indians?
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Christopher Columbus arrived on the American continent in the 15th century. He had traveled west from Europe and hoped to reach India by a new route. He hardly expected that instead of reaching India, he was going to reach an entirely new continent where he would meet new people. Before his discovery, the Europeans had no idea that a continent existed in the west. When Christopher Columbus reached the American continent in 1492, he thought he had reached India. When he saw the natives of the region and met with them, he thought he was meeting with people of India, who were called Indians.
So he decided to call the Native Americans as Indians. He soon realized his mistake and found out that he wasn’t in India but on a new continent. However, the name ‘Indians’ stuck and it has been used to refer to the Native Americans to this day. When Europeans discovered the American continent in the 15th century, European colonialism was at its peak. European nations often considered other races as inferior to them.
They created names based on the skin color or appearances of other races. For the Native Americans, they used the term ‘Red Indians’. This was a term used to distinguish them from the Indians who lived in the Indian subcontinent
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