Basics
Who inhabited PR before the Spanish arrived?
What are the Taino?
This is what Hispanola is
What is an island in the Greater Antilles?
Columbus called PR this
What is San Juan Bautista?
This is why the natives resisted the Spanish
What is acting as vassals, paying in gold and food, and having to accept the Christian religion?
This is what La Fortaleza and El Morro are
What are a fortress, and protection for the harbour?
A cacique was what?
What is a chief?
Hispanola is made up of these countries
What are the Dominican Republic and Haiti?
This is when Columbus landed on the island
What is Nov 19, 1493?
This is when the natives first revolted against the Spanish
What is 1511?
This is what San Cristobal is
What is a larger fortress to the Northeast?
This is what the natives called PR
What is Borinquen?
The Greater Antilles is made up of these islands
What are Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, Dominican Republic, and PR?
The first to be given permission to explore the island
Who is Ponce de Leon?
This is how the Spaniards worked mines after disease took part of the native population
What is bringing slaves in from Africa and India?
This is who attacked PR in 1595
Who is Sir Francis Drake?
The native groups had conflict with this group
Who are the Caribs?
This is what the West Indies is
What is a region of the North Atlantic Ocean, and the Carribbean?
The first town in PR
What is Caparra?
This is why some Spaniards left PR by the 1530s
What is the lack of gold production?
This is what George Clifford did in 1598
What is capturing the city, but then being forced to abandon it?
These were three of the crops the natives ate
What are pineapple, cassava, and sweet potatoes?
These are five islands in the Lesser Antilles
What are the Virgin Islands, Saba, St. Lucia, St. Martin, and Nevis?
The original name of PR's capital
What is Ciudad de Puerto Rico?
Pirates from these countries raided PR in the 1600s
What are France, Britain, and the Dutch?
This is what Bowdoin Hendrik did in 1625
What is capturing and burning the town?