Original sentence: As the first area of California in which Europeans settled, San Diego has been described as "the birthplace of California.Explorer Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo claims to have discovered San Diego Bay in 1542, roughly 200 years before Europeans settled the area;  in truth, Native Americans such as the Kumeyaay people had been living in the area for as long as 12,000 years prior to any European presence.The written (as opposed to oral) history of the San Diego, California, region began in the present state of California when Europeans first began inhabiting the San Diego Bay region
Edited sentence: As the first area of California in which Europeans colonized, San Diego has been described as "the birthplace of California.Explorer Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo claims to have discovered San Diego Bay in 1542, roughly 200 years before Europeans invaded the area; however Native Americans such as the Kumeyaay people had been living in the area for as long as 12,000 years prior to any European presence.The written (as opposed to oral) history of the San Diego, California, region began in the present state of California when Europeans first began invading the San Diego Bay region