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Revealing how the world was discovered stirred up controversy between the Indians and Christopher Columbus as well as the “right of discovery.” Christopher Columbus feels that he discovered the “New World” because he is the one who brought attention to it and declared it Spain’s. However, the Indians believe that they discovered it because they were the ones who were living there before it was even known. How can something be discovered when it has already been found? In the book, Five Hundred Years, it states that, “English speakers, meant to uncover: to reveal something that already exist.”(1) The “Right of Discovery” belongs to the Indians because they were not only there first to live there, but found that land, however, Columbus set a pathway to manifest destiny by taking a land already occupied for his own. He took over a land and gave it national attention across the world. If it is continued to be believed that discovers are the ones who have the right to do what they want with the land, expansion might not have been an option. The revealing that Columbus did opened doors for others to expand and to utilize all resources to make America better.

Christopher Columbus was on track to create history and did so in revealing the “New World.” As he went through his voyage he approached an island occupied by an uncivilized group of people. Columbus writes to Spain describing the people ultimately as savages. They do not dress, they do not know how to utilize weapons, and they would leave their children. (5) As he went about his voyage he claimed all these islands occupied by people as Spain’s land, Columbus added, “I found very many islands filled with people without number, and of them all have I taken possession for their Highn...

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History has proven that what you work for is what you get. Columbus did what he needed to do to gain land as the Indians did what they needed to, to prosper in this world. Discovery is gaining control of what you want with no circumstances. Christopher Columbus paved the way to what ultimately became known as manifest destiny. He took over an occupied land for his own by force. Later events showed the same known as the “Great Frontier.” History does not repeat itself because the circumstances are not the same, but it is similar because of how things are handled. The final thing that can be done is to provide in history books that Columbus did more than just discover the “New World,” but began this destiny for future settlers to take land that they want to expand and utilize all resources that are available to them.