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Christopher Columbus mistakenly named the native people of the New World 'Indians' as he thought he had reached Asia.


Explanation:

Christopher Columbus mistakenly believed he had reached Asia when he landed in the New World, naming the native people 'Indians' as a result.

This term stuck even though the indigenous people of the Americas were not from India but were the original inhabitants of the continent.

Columbus's erroneous views about the world's size and his unexpected landfall marked the beginning of European colonization in the Americas.


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