Why Some People Think Christopher Columbus "Discovered" America (by Zora))

Some people think Christopher Columbus “discovered” America but he really didn’t.  One reason he didn’t is that native people were there for hundreds of years.  Another reason is people like Leif Eriksson sailed to America but just didn’t stop to make settlements.  I guess the reason of that is because the Europeans [the or Spanish] didn’t know about the New World [North America] and accepted Christopher Columbus as the “discoverer” who brought them aware that a continent was there.  Though it’s funny because the Europeans [or the Spanish] thought Christopher Columbus had just come across a much faster and safer way to sail to China.