Definitions
Which plate is this ?
Caribbean Plate
Ivan and Charlie are examples of which natural disaster?
Hurricane
In what year did Columbus arrive in the Americas ?
1492
Which set of people used zemis as a representation of their gods?
Tainos
This is a vibration or series of vibration caused by a sudden movement of the earth's crust ?
Earthquake
A natural disaster struck a Caribbean country in 1907 leaving major damage, what disaster was this ?
Earthquake
In what year was the slave trade abolished in the British West Indies?
1807
Which set of people traveled through what is known as the middle passage to get to Americas?
Africans
This term refers to the right of a people or nation to determine their own affairs.
Political Enfranchisement
Slash and Burn farming technique was used by which group of people?
Tainos
What important event took place in Jamaica in 1944?
Universal Adult Suffrage
We were promised a better life with monetary compensation for our labour, if we came to work on the plantations in the Americas after 1838 ?
Who were these people ?
Asians
A network of interrelationship among individuals, groups and institutions.
Social Structure
Dougla was referred to as offspring of Blacks and Indians, this is an example of which feature of cultural diversity?
Hybridization
In what years did hurricane Dean and Sandy affected the Caribbean?
Dean-2007
Sandy-2012
Mestizo was a new race created between which two groups of people?
Spanish and Indigenous people
Tilling land across hillsides rather than down breaks potential natural channels of water slope.
Contour Ploughing
The Shango religion is practiced in which Caribbean country ?
Trinidad and Tobago
In what years were the People National Party and Jamaica Labour party founded in Jamaica
PNP- 1938
JLP-1943
Whose theory argued that the plantation system played a significant role in the development of culture in the Caribbean?
George Beckford