Reply #14: Guess all you like

[Character Assassin]

The people already living weren't organized into recognizable, discrete political entities, didn't record or archive historical records, other than in oral tradition, and didn't particularly subscribe a New World/Old World conception of the world.

They also are theorized to have arrived here, in piecemeal fashion, in migratory waves, not specifically for the purpose of exploration or discovery of any 'new world'.

It's a matter of classification for the most part.