Albert Gallatin thinks the real motive underlying the idea of Manifest Destiny is the following one:
US thinks we are superior
Manifest Destiny was the belief that America should expand all over the North American continent as it was their divine destiny to remove Native Americans and other nations from their continent. Gallatin believed that this was only to show everyone the supremacy of the American nation.
Answer: Herodotus is widely known as the "father of history", his Histories being eponymous of the entire field. Herodotus was succeeded by authors such as Thucydides, Xenophon, Demosthenes, Plato and Aristotle.
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