Even before Christopher Columbus set sail on his voyage to what would eventually become the Americas, European countries had envisioned a land that was an empty wilderness filled with vast amounts of unlimited resources and riches. It was not until the early fifteenth century that Europeans finally stumbled across this envisioned land. Contrary to what many Europeans believed, the New World was in no way an uninhabited land. When Christopher Columbus first arrived in the Bahamas in 1492, right away, he encountered the Taíno native tribe. This was much to his surprise. In reality, for thousands of years, there had been hundreds of Native tribes that had widely inhabited both the South and North Americas. It is believed that North America was