What did Christopher Columbus discovering the Bahamas lead to?

Columbus did not discover the Bahamas or the Americas. Though such errors are still taught and widely said, many historians don't use the phrase anymore. One can't discover what many thousands (or in the case of the Americas, at least tens of millions) of people had already discovered before.
Perhaps 1,000 years before Columbus, Taino Indians arrived in the Bahamas, which they called Guanahani or Ba Ha Ma. (Some accounts believe the word "Bahamas" is from the Spanish "baja mar," or below the sea.) Some historians believe San Salvador in the Bahamas was Columbus's first landing spot in the Americas. Others believe it to be Hispaniola, which is today the Dominican Republic and Haiti.
There were perhaps 40,000 Taino in Guanahani when Columbus arrived. Columbus's landing led to his invasion of the islands, war, and mass enslavement. Nearly all the islands' people were enslaved and sent to work on Hispaniola. By 1511, the islands were almost completely depopulated.
The French tried to colonize the islands twice without success. The English began colonizing in 1648 and brought in many African slaves.
The people of the Bahamas today are over eighty percent descendants of those slaves. The descendants of the original inhabitants of the Bahamas, the Taino, live on today as Dominicans and other peoples.