Columbus called the native peoples he encountered "Indians" because
a. that was what they called themselves.
b. he believed that he had skirted the rim of the "Indies."
c. it was a form of the Spanish word for heathen.
d. the Vikings had first called them by that name.
e. this is what they asked him to call them.
b
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