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What did Columbus assume about American Indians when he first encountered them in 1492?

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Answer: inferior race

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1492 From their n**edness, Columbus inferred the native people to be an inferior race. Columbus wrote of the Indians he encountered, "They all go around as n**ed as their mothers bore them; and also the women."

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