This might be a dumb question but i’ve always wondered since they had never encountered people who spoke a completely new language they’d never heard, how did they communicate?
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Christopher Columbus never interacted with Native Americans like we think of them today.
He landed on an island in the Gulf of Mexico, which later became Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
The expedition members communicated by pointing, gesturing and using body language, or drew pictures to communicate, with the natives.
Eventually some men of his expedition stayed in Hispaniola and learned the language, but Columbus also took natives back to Spain to learn Spanish, and then brought them back as translators on his later expeditions.
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