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    The Indigenous People Of The Americas CXC Past Paper Question (1992) QUESTION 5 (a) Name two groups of Amerindians who lived in the Caribbean before the arrival of the Europeans in 1492. (2 marks) ANSWER Tainos (Arawaks) and Kalinagos Caribs (b) Give two examples of the way of life before 1492 of any one of the groups named at (a) above (6 marks) ANSWER (Group Tainos) The cacique was the head of the Tainos society. The cacique was a hereditary title which passed down from father

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    peninsula with Trinidad. He states that Yucatan has a magnificent landscape while Trinidad has been destroyed during colonialism. Walcott describes the natives as toothless tigers‚ once powerful and strong but now nothing more than a big defenseless cat “Caribs‚ like toothless tigers”. Here we can appreciate cultural chauvinism‚

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    still significant‚ occurrences. He talks about the journey over to the New World‚ and what the sailors and settlers dealt with on some of the islands that they stopped at along the way‚ such as the Hippomane mancinella on Nevis and the oddly dressed Caribs on Dominica. He discusses the first skirmish with the Wowinchopuncks‚ where a company of 100 possibly hostile armed Indians and their chief‚ whose reason for visiting was unknown‚ engaged in a

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    “THE PLANTATION SOCIETY MODEL VALIDLY EXPLAINS THE CURRENT CARIBBEAN SOCIETY IN BOTH SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC TERMS” - DISCUSS [30 MARKS] TS – The plantation society model served the purpose of rigidly structuring society in order to facilitate clear economic goals. The Caribbean has since shed many of the harsh rigidities of the system in favour of more liberal social order but many elements of the plantation system still remain today. Much like the plantation model‚ the Caribbean continues to be

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    net/apwh/essays/cot/t0w13cannibalism.htm and http://blog.burkeresearchservices.com/burkes_bits/2010/01/did-you-know-human-sacrifice.html) Human sacrifice is the act of slaughtering human beings as part of a religious sacrament. Cannibalism originated from the Carib people which were a West Indies tribe notorious for their practice of cannibalism. A widespread custom going back into early human history‚ cannibalism and human sacrifice has been found among peoples on nearly all of the continents. Human sacrifice

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    The Nacirema people‚ living in the territory between the Canadian Creed‚ the Yaqui and Tarahumare of Mexico‚ and the Carib and Arawak of the Antilles‚ are a group of Northern Americans who have chosen to live their lives in a strange manner. There is a main premise to their choice of lifestyle and that is to rid the body of its ugliness and natural tendencies towards debility and disease. (p. 503). The Nacirema people have devoted their lives to deterring these features of themselves through ritual

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    There must’ve been an unimaginable amont of horror when first Europeans beholded Carib natives feeding on human during a post war. Over time‚ cannibalism was spread everywhere. For example‚ an American gold prospector‚ Alferd Packer was declared to be a cannibal. On February of 1874‚ he left for an expedition in the Colorado mountains

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    CREATING MEAT TENDERIZING USING PAPAIN FROM PAPAYA BY THE PROCESS OF EXTRACTION INTRODUCTION The papaya(from carib via Spanish‚) papaw or pawpaw is the fruit of the plant carica papaya‚ the sole species in the genus carica of the plant family cariceae.it has native to the tropics of the Americas‚ perhaps from southern Mexico several centuries before the emergence of the Mesoamerican classical civilizations. The papaya is a large‚ tree-like plant‚ with a single stem growing from 5 to 10 m

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    Their interactions with the indigenous people and land were fueled by their desires to have a colonial enterprise‚ hence conducted in an exploitative way. Having desired to convert the land into plantations‚ and the indigenous people to Christianity‚ they forced the natives to labor. Due to how proprietorial they were‚ the Spanish divided and modified the land arbitrarily‚ creating colonial mines as they desired and forced the natives to work on them‚ or bear slave raids instead. From the 16th century

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    be addressed. Europeans first came into contact with the Caribbean after Columbus’s journeys in 1492‚ 1496 and 1498. The desire for expansion and trade led to the settlement of the colonies. The indigenous peoples‚ mostly serene Tainos and hostile Caribs‚ proved to be unsuitable for slave labor in the newly formed plantations‚ and they were quickly and brutally defeated. The slave trade which had already begun on the West Coast of Africa provided the labor needed for the sugar‚ coffee‚ cotton and

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