Question

Does the world Columbus encountered when he first set foot in America mesh with the popular vision of “Native Americans?”

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The answer to this question is negative. Why? In the first place, Christopher Columbus arrived in a continent about which nobody knew. He himself thought he had arrived at some outer islands not far from the Asian mainland. He was looking for a new route to India to trade with species and other goods. So, he and his men could not have thought of the local inhabitants as "Native Americans." This is a later term used to call the original inhabitants of the continent. Even "America" was a term started to use later by the European explorers and had nothing to do with Columbus.

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