What Columbus got wrong in his depictions of Indigenous Americans was that he considered the indigenous as ignorant and primitive people.
> That conception was completely wrong. Let's have in mind that when Columbus arrived in the Americas, Mesoamerican civilizations such as the Aztecs already lived on a lake, where they built "Chinampas," portions of land over the lake, where they lived and grew crops.
> We are talking about the great capital city of the Aztec Empire: the Great Tenochtitlan.
> Columbus was unable and unwilling to fully appreciate the world into which he had arrived because he had that European arrogant vision that made him thought that the Spaniards were superior to the indigenous people.
> However, when Columbus arrived in the Americas, another Mesoamerican civilization such as the Mayas had already come and gone.
> The Mayas left impressive cities such as Palenque, Uxmal, and Chichen Itza, with impressive buildings that proved that these Mesoamerican civilizations were great mathematicians, engineers, and astronomers.
We can conclude that pre-Columbian civilizations of Mesoamerica had deep knowledge about religion, mathematics, engineering, astronomy, and advanced knowledge in agriculture techniques that allowed them to farm the fields and grow crops.
Learn more about this topic here:
https://brainly.com/question/12115356?referrer=searchResults
