When Christopher Columbus landed in the Bahamas, he called the native Arawak people __________.

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Niko Jojo · Answer 1 · 2018-08-21T17:00:26+0000

He had called them Indians which is where the word Indian originated from, Indian was what he called them because of their similarity to the Indians :)

Aldasa · Answer 2 · 2018-08-26T04:39:03+0000

Indians, because he was trying to go to India by going west. It did not work, and that's why colonists called Native Americans "Indians".

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