Columbus didn’t discover any uninhabited land, but he did initiate an age of exploration and discovery in Europe. After he came back and spread the news about his findings, other European countries sent their own explorers to the new land to see if they could reap some of the benefits. Columbus sparked the age of European colonization which exploded in the years to come. About 300 years after he arrived in the Americas, settlers were making their own home and establishing the United States. Columbus did start a disastrous trend which was killing of the native people in the new land. Apparently on the very first day he arrived he began to murder some of the natives he came in contact with. This does not mean he murdered everyone in his path,
