Colonizers
The first European nation to come to the Caribbean
The Spaniards
Jamaica
What is the island visited by Columbus on his second voyage and is the largest English speaking isalnd in the Caribbean?
1492
What is the year of Christopher Columbus' first voyage?
Tainos
What is the indigenous people of the Caribbean?
Bammy
What food made from cassava was eaten by the Tainos?
The Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria
What is the names Columbus' three ships.
The Bahamas
What is the first island visited by Columbus?
1655
What is the year the British captured Jamaica?
The British
What is the European nation that captured Jamaica from the British?
Curry
What popular spice was introduced by the East Indians and is used with chicken?
Spaniards and British
What the two European nations colonized Jamaica?
Cuba, Jamaica, Puerto Rico
What are the islands of the Greater Antilles?
1494
What is the year the Spaniards landed in Jamaica?
East Indians and Chinese
What are the groups of people who replaced the Africans on the plantation after emancipation?
Maypole
What is a dance which uses ribbons and was introduced by the British?
Governor Eyre
What is the name of the governor of Jamaica during the Morant Bay Rebellion?
Trinidad
What is the island in the osuthern Caribbean which received large numbers of East Indians?
1838
What is the year slavery ended in the British Caribbean?
Africans
What is the largest ethnic group in the Caribbean?
Drums
What is a musical instrument used by Africans to communicate?
Sir John Peter Grant
What is the name of the governor who replaced Governor Eyre after the Morant Bay Rebellion in 1865?
Haiti
What is the only French speaking territory in the Greater Antilles?
1962
What is the year Jamaica gained independence?
The Spaniards
What is the European country that was to first to colonize Jamaica?
The Chinese
What ethnic group opened corner shops and later supermarkets in Jamaica?