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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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columbus referd the Arawak's people as Indians because he saw that they were both of the same skin but they were of lighter skin than them and that they were form onother land.

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Q: Why did Columbus refer to the Arawak's as Indians?
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