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What Columbus believed that he had reached India what did he call the people he found there?
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Who named the Indians?
Christopher Colubus did. He named them Indians because he was trying to sail around the world to India, and was not expecting America. Therefore, when he found America was inhabited, he called the residents of America Indians, because he thought he reached India.
Where was Columbus headed when he accidentally landed in the West Indies?
Columbus was headed to the Asia (then called the Indies), specifically India and China.
What did Christopher Columbus believed he could reach India by sailing?
Columbus thought he could reach India by sailing west.
Why did Columbus want to find India?
India This is why when Columbus landed in the New World, he called the Native Americans he found "Indians".
Who explored the west Indies?
Christopher Columbus. He thought he had reached India and named the island "Indies" and called its inhabitants, "Indians". Later Amerigo Vespucci proved that Colombus had actually found the New Lands, and not India. The island was then renamed "West Indies".
Columbus believed that he had reached India. what did he call the people he found there?
Indians (Apex)
Christopher Columbus believed that he reached?
He believed that he had reached India, so he called the (now Bahamas) West Indies.
Where did christopher Columbus thought he had reached in 1492?
On christopher Columbus's 1st voyage he landed in the Americas which he thought was India
Why did Columbus call the people he found in the land discovered Indians?
Because he erroneously believed that he had reached India by sailing west from the Old World. Columbus had no idea that he had actually landed in the New World.
What did Columbus do when he reached the new world?
Thought he was in India, was intrigued by the people there, and then slaughter them.
Why did Columbus call the native people he met Indians?
because Columbus was trying to find a quicker trade rout to india, and when he arived in america he believed that he was in india.
When Columbus reached Cuba were did he think he was?
He reached the Bahamas and thought he had reached India.
Columbus believed that he had reach India. What did he call the people he found there?
Indians (Apex)
Did Columbus think he reached India or the indies?
He thought he reached India, but he reached the Indies. That's why they're called the Indies, I think.
Why didnt Columbus realize he had reached an unknow continent?
he thought he had reached India
Where did Columbus believe he had reached when he landed in the Caribbean sea?
India
Where did Columbus believe himself to be when he reached the new world?
India
