this for the King and Queen. He ordered men to enslave the Taino for them and to make them work in the mines for gold. Gold was all he and the King and Queen cared about. He even said‚ “Gold is most excellent; gold is treasure‚ and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world.” Also‚ he spread terror and fear to show he was in control. He grilled people and set dogs to chase children and eat them. To spread religion‚ he hung up Taino Indians
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Columbus day. Did you know that on the second Monday of October‚ almost 319 million people in the U.S. celebrate this holiday? However‚ did you also know that Christopher Columbus may have been responsible for the death of over 2‚000 people? Recently‚ him and his holiday have been under fire due to new evidence about his history. People all over the U.S. are wondering why we spend an entire day giving tribute to a man who was so obviously cruel and unjust. I personally agree with them‚ and believe
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African slaves. The cost to ship slaves from West Africa to Portugal and Spain and then to the Americas proved prohibitive. There was easier access to Taino labour and it was unnecessary to spend extra money on importing slaves. Tainos were used to find and mine the gold because they were familiar with the surroundings and there were enough Tainos to mine the little gold the Spaniards had found. Indentured servants or white servants also contributed to the need for only a small number of African
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Haiti‚ a name that means "mountainous country‚" is acquired from the language of the Taino Indians. Tainos are people that used to live before European colonization. The language spoken by many people is Kreyol‚ whose pronunciation and vocabulary are derived largely from French‚ however whose syntax is like that of other creoles. Furthermore‚ the adoption of a new constitution in 1987‚ Kreyol was given official status as the primary official language. Some elements of African cultures survive‚ such
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In 1492‚ Christopher Columbus was sailing for King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain‚ he landed on the islands in the Caribbean. He thought he landed on an island in the Indies‚ but really found the island of Hispaniola which is present day Haiti and the Dominican Republic. He saw the native people and the plants they grew such as peanuts‚ sweet potatoes‚ and tobacco. On his second sail to the islands‚ Columbus brought back saplings of the plants and animals with him. This sparked new global
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-The ARAWAKS and CARIBS originally settled in South America (Bolivia & Brazil). They then migrated to the West Indies. At the time of the European arrival the Arawaks inhabited the Greater Antilles and half of Puerto Rico‚ While the Caribs controlled the Lesser Antilles. The word Arawak defines a Linguistic Group. There were many distinctive tribal groups‚ which settled in the Caribbean most of them were Arawak speaking people. The Lucayans were only found in the Bahamas. The Tainos were found in Cuba
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Arawaks/ Tainos‚ whom were well fed people with cultivated lands. However this discovery of Haiti by Columbus would serve as the beginning of extinction for the Tainos people as we know. The population of the Taino people went from three million people to fewer than 27‚000 during the colonial period. This was because they forced the Arawak people to work hard labours which they were not used to‚ also they were exposed .to various diseases brought by the Europeans. In time of demise for the Tainos‚ there
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Dominican Republic and Jamaica‚ sisters of the Caribbean The Caribbean is a mixture of different cultures and people. Jamaica is under the island of Cuba and on the west side of Haiti. The Dominican Republic shares it land with Haiti on the west and Puerto Rico is on the east‚ crossing the ´´canal de la mona´´. These islands may look similar in a geographical view but they have some peculiarities. Aspects like their languages and the political situation where they are living make them unique. Since
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History * The Taino - indigenous inhabitants of Hispaniola prior to the arrival of the Europeans - divided the island into five chiefdoms and territories. * Christopher COLUMBUS explored and claimed the island on his first voyage in 1492; it became a springboard for Spanish conquest of the Caribbean and the American mainland. * In 1697‚ Spain recognized French dominion over the western third of the island‚ which in 1804 became Haiti. * The remainder of the island‚ by then known as
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Columbus is a fine example‚ and one of the first perpetrators‚ of this attitude. After landing in the Caribbean islands‚ Christopher Columbus treated the islands and the Taino natives as things to be used for Spanish benefit. He saw the islands as commercial plantations to be worked by forced laborers: the Tainos. Columbus reasoned that treating the Indians as such would ultimately benefit them by exposing them to Christianity and to Hispanic ways. Columbus believed that native Peoples
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