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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.
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Who is the leader of the Arawaks?
The leader of the arawak indians is the cacique. Hope that helped :)
Why were the Arawaks and Caribs called Amerindians?
The word Amerindian is a combination of American Indian. Columbus called the natives Indians because he thought he had landed in India.
What did Columbus and the Spaniards do to the Arawaks?
The spaniard enslaved the arawaks by forcing them to find gold, food and pearls for them. A little while after they started brutalizing them and killing them off as if they were ants. The arawaks got sick off it and committed infanticied, meaning, the killed their infants just to releive them from not becoming slaves. They also committed suicide by drinking the piosonous cassava juice
What Indians saw Columbus first?
taino
What game is played by the arawaks?
Batos
