[T. P. Pole]

The way I’ve heard it is “once Columbus discovered it, it stayed discovered.”

[plain talk]

Yes that is a great way to put it.

[Paal Gulli]

"...The way I’ve heard it is 'once Columbus discovered it, it stayed discovered'....” That's it in a nutshell. Columbus' discovery was the start of 100% of the European colonization of the Americas that was to follow.