Historiography #1: The Arrival of the Europeans

My personal belief that it was morally wrong to nearly exterminate a thriving Native civilization in the European’s quest to colonize America, but their overall discovery of America was the greater advancement in the history of civilization.
Even though there is no sure estimate on how many people lived in the Americas, I agree that the Europeans definitely did ruin the Native American population with diseases from Europe as well as the casualties that came from warfare. The death of millions of the Native American population definitely makes it hard to see any achievement that the Europeans made, but the advancement of the Americas that came from the Europeans coming is something that affects us as a people today.
Europeans brought over ideas, resources, and knowledge that the Natives knew nothing about, which in the long run (now), would have affected in America in so many ways that it would be unimaginable to think. The Europeans would’ve eventually discovered the Americas in later years but we wouldn’t be as advanced today had they not discovered the land then.
So although it might not have been the prettiest story of how our home was found, it is the story, and I am personally grateful things worked out like they did.