Of course! The Native Americans were friendly when they met Columbus and the Spanish explorers because they thought Columbus and his explorers to be honorable people. Columbus portrayed himself in this way. He was very kind and polite to the Native Americans and made sure to treat them with respect. The Native Americans, after all, had never seen Europeans before, and although they were a bit taken aback, they admired them (of course, until they realized the Europeans only wanted their land and were only seeking to exploit them).
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The Indians of the West (West Indians) are simply Native Americans, or called Amerindians (American Indians). Colombus arrived in the Caribbean and thought he was in India. He called this place the West Indies and the people West Indians. Hope this helped!~
Pre-columbian means before Christopher Columbus arrived. Explorations came after.
They arrived via a land bridge between modern day Alaska and Eastern Siberia.
The first Europeans to settle in the Americas during the Age of Exploration were the Spanish, led by Christopher Columbus, who arrived in 1492. Following Columbus, Spanish explorers such as Hernán Cortés and Francisco Pizarro established settlements in the Caribbean and parts of Central and South America. The Portuguese also explored and settled parts of Brazil around the same time. These early settlements marked the beginning of significant European colonization in the New World.
The Arawaks.
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he attempted genocide on them.
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Columbus didn't land in North America, but if he had he would have found millions of Native Americans living there.
Columbus called the Native Americans Indians, because he thought he was in India when he arrived in America. The name stuck, and we still call them Indians today.
He encountered Native Americans, he believed he had arrived at India so he called them indians.
He encountered Native Americans, he believed he had arrived at India so he called them indians.
The West Indies were inhabited by indigenous peoples when Christopher Columbus arrived. These included the Taino in the Bahamas and Cuba, the Caribs in the Lesser Antilles, and the Arawak in the Greater Antilles.
Columbus was trying to get to India when he ran into North America. He thought that he had arrived in India, so he referred to the Native Americans as Indians. AND, we still refer to them as such.
cristoffer Columbus was not first to discover north America. There were humans ("Indians") there when he arrived, who had lived there for thousands and thousands of years.
Yes, when Christopher Columbus arrived on the shores of the new world, both North and South America were inhabited by indigenous people.