It had always been there. But anyway, a bunch of men with white skin, explorers, as they liked to refer to themselves, traveled by means of floating wood across the ocean to get rich. Rich is term that these people use to describe people who had lots of stuff. This stuff, they believed, allowed them to slaughter whoever got in the way of getting more stuff. Ho, I'm told, is a word that these people use to describe women, usually those women who have sex with men.
Sex is basically a very valuable type of stuff that is still used as a means of trade.
Women trade men sex for other stuff, like food and clothes. Perfectly logical, women need stuff too. When they got on the land, the Arawaks, red colored people, well actually not red, but the white peoples' vocabulary was too small to have a word to describe the color of the Arawaks skin, greeted them and helped them get essential items like food, shelter, and at the request of the white man, parrots. But the white man, working of course for progress, progress is a force that no man can control that makes men do strange things, like act like mad cows, wanted more. They wanted rocks.