What did columbus call the natives the met and why

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Sven Adbring · Answer 1 · 2018-03-14T19:27:47+0000

Columbus called the native people he met in his American voyages Indians because he believed he had reached the East Indies. He wasn't where he thought he was. Most (well, all of it actually) of what I managed to find repeats this as the reason.

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