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Important Dates
People
100
This is an oceanic tectonic plate that expands from Central America, the Caribbean seas and under the northern coast of South America?

 

Which plate is this ?

Caribbean Plate

100

Ivan and Charlie are examples of which natural disaster?

Hurricane

100

In what year did Columbus arrive in the Americas ?

1492

100

Which set of people used zemis as a representation of their gods?

Tainos

200

This is a vibration or series of vibration caused by a sudden movement of the earth's crust ?

Earthquake

200

A natural disaster struck a Caribbean country in 1907 leaving major damage, what disaster was this ?

Earthquake

200

In what year was the slave trade abolished in the British West Indies?

1807

200

Which set of people traveled through what is known as the middle passage to get to Americas?

Africans

300

This term refers to the right of a people or nation to determine their own affairs.

Political Enfranchisement

300

Slash and Burn farming technique was used by which group of people?


Tainos

300

What important event took place in Jamaica in 1944?

Universal Adult Suffrage

300

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

400

A network of interrelationship among individuals, groups and institutions.

Social Structure

400

Dougla was referred to as offspring of Blacks and Indians, this is an example of which feature of cultural diversity?

Hybridization

400

In what years did hurricane Dean and Sandy affected the Caribbean?

Dean-2007

Sandy-2012

400

Mestizo was a new race created between which two groups of people?

Spanish and Indigenous people

500

Tilling land across hillsides rather than down breaks potential natural channels of water slope.

Contour Ploughing

500

The Shango religion is practiced in which Caribbean country ? 

Trinidad and Tobago

500

In what years were the People National Party and Jamaica Labour party founded in Jamaica

PNP- 1938

JLP-1943

500

Whose theory argued that the plantation system played a significant role in the development of culture in the Caribbean?

George Beckford

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