The history of the United States and North America are often explained as starting with Christopher Columbus. Although it was already inhabited and known about to some, that is when Europeans became aware of it’s existence and began to migrate to it establishing societies that grew into the country we know today.

At the time land was less populated which often made it unclear who’s land it was and made existing societies weaker and easier to attack. Land was often fought over. In North America natives fought amongst themselves over territories. When Europeans arrived they fought with natives over the land and once they had grown in size enough, fought amongst themselves. England prospered the most from the fights and grew in size eventually fighting itself in the Revolutionary war with the inhabitants declaring the United States a sovereign nation from England.