Upon reaching what is now North America, Christopher Columbus, whose original goal was to sail around the world to India, thought that he had accomplished his goal. When he discovered that there were natives in the New World, he mistakenly called them Indians, believing that they were natives of India.
Columbus went west to go east, but he thought he was in India. He called the people he met "indians". His diary reflects he didn't think much of them and thought they would make good slaves. He mainly wanted them to bring him gold. When one man brought a few nuggets to him Columbus got so mad he cut the man's hands off. Columbus was a greedy man who wanted riches, and power.
They got shot
The word Amerindian is a combination of American Indian. Columbus called the natives Indians because he thought he had landed in India.
They saw them as naive, ignorant, and less than them. "They cut themselves with ignorance" is from Christopher Columbus dairy entry suggests that they are simple people with simple weapons. They saw them as being misguided by not following the Christian religion.
Indians
Indians. Columbus came later
the taino Indians made the first attack on Columbus
he saw Land and Indians which they are unknown till this day?
Christopher Columbus thought he was in india so he called them indians
indians
The people Columbus encountered are known as the Tainos.
no. It was actually technically the vikings that came first.
People think Christopher Columbus but ACTUALLY its the Indians that helped him get used to America so, Not Christopher Columbus the Indians are the 1st to find America
The first land/island Christopher Columbus saw was San Salvador. That is the answer to that question. GOOD LUCK!
he attempted genocide on them.
Lucayan-Arawak Indians