caribbean studies
DATE: 1ST/NOV/2013
1. AROUND WHAT TIME THE EUROPEAN MIGRANTS DID CAME INTO THE CARIBBEAN AND FOR WHAT REASONS? (3 MARKS)
The West Indies are a group of islands lying in an arc between Florida in the US and the Venezuelan coast of South America. Europeans came to the region in the 15th century looking for spices, gold, silver and precious stones. Christopher Columbus believed the world was round and that by travelling westward, he could eventually reach the East. When he made his first landfall in the 'New World' in 1492, he was sure he had reached the East by this western route, so he named the islands the 'West Indies' and the people he found there 'Indians'.
The area came to be called the Caribbean, after the Caribs, one of the Taino peoples who, along with the Arawaks, had migrated from Central and South America, and were among the first people to live on the West Indian islands.
On his second voyage in 1493, Columbus was accompanied by a larger number of Spaniards who hoped to settle in Hispaniola, the island now split between Haiti and Dominican Republic, and to become farmers there. From Hispaniola, the Spaniards spread out to take over other islands. Farming developed and the rearing of pigs and cattle began to produce goods for export. More importantly, it was becoming clear that there was wealth to be gained from cultivation of the sugar-cane plant, and the Spaniards began to use Indian labour to get the most profitable results.
2. EXPLAIN THE TERM ‘REGIONAL/MIGRATION TRADITIONAL’ (5 MARKS)
Regional: of, relating to, or characteristic of a region.
A region is a wide geographic area region can be describe by the culture of the people who live there like china town, latin America. Are it can be define by the plant and animal that lives there like the rain forest or the great barrier reef
We can name a region by describe land like the rocky mountain, the great plains, the grand canyon,
The region is a classificatory concept designed
1. AROUND WHAT TIME THE EUROPEAN MIGRANTS DID CAME INTO THE CARIBBEAN AND FOR WHAT REASONS? (3 MARKS)
The West Indies are a group of islands lying in an arc between Florida in the US and the Venezuelan coast of South America. Europeans came to the region in the 15th century looking for spices, gold, silver and precious stones. Christopher Columbus believed the world was round and that by travelling westward, he could eventually reach the East. When he made his first landfall in the 'New World' in 1492, he was sure he had reached the East by this western route, so he named the islands the 'West Indies' and the people he found there 'Indians'.
The area came to be called the Caribbean, after the Caribs, one of the Taino peoples who, along with the Arawaks, had migrated from Central and South America, and were among the first people to live on the West Indian islands.
On his second voyage in 1493, Columbus was accompanied by a larger number of Spaniards who hoped to settle in Hispaniola, the island now split between Haiti and Dominican Republic, and to become farmers there. From Hispaniola, the Spaniards spread out to take over other islands. Farming developed and the rearing of pigs and cattle began to produce goods for export. More importantly, it was becoming clear that there was wealth to be gained from cultivation of the sugar-cane plant, and the Spaniards began to use Indian labour to get the most profitable results.
2. EXPLAIN THE TERM ‘REGIONAL/MIGRATION TRADITIONAL’ (5 MARKS)
Regional: of, relating to, or characteristic of a region.
A region is a wide geographic area region can be describe by the culture of the people who live there like china town, latin America. Are it can be define by the plant and animal that lives there like the rain forest or the great barrier reef
We can name a region by describe land like the rocky mountain, the great plains, the grand canyon,
The region is a classificatory concept designed