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Q: What did Christopher Columbus call the islands he found?
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What did Columbus call the island he landed on in Hawaii?

Christopher Columbus never landed in the Hawaiian Islands.


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He called them Indians.


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it was so named because to him we looked like the east indies he was just idle


Why did Columbus refer to the people he encountered as Indians?

Christopher Columbus believed that he had sailed all the way to the East Indies, probably somewhere near the islands we now call Malaysia. He didn't realize that he had only sailed less than halfway to Asia.


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Who landed on an island he named San Salvador?

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