Indigenous Peoples
These were the first people of the Caribbean and were later conquered by the Spanish.
What is the Arawak?
This European nation was the first to conquer the Arawak.
Who are the Spanish?
The Arawak were known for having this skin tone and quiet nature.
What is dark brown skin and a docile nature?
A group of people from one country who settle in another land
What is a colony?
This age group was most vulnerable to European diseases
Who are the very young and the very old?
These peaceful people lived on Barbados and Hispaniola before European conquest.
Who were the Arawak?
After the Spanish, these three European powers eventually conquered the Caribs over 300 years.
Who are the Dutch, French, and British?
The Caribs kept Arawak women and children in this condition.
What is slavery?
The process of settling and establishing control over indigenous people.
What is colonization?
The death of elders resulted in the loss of these two crucial cultural elements.
What are knowledge and tradition?
These people were encountered by Columbus in the Bahamas
Who were the Taínos?
Columbus mistakenly believed he had found a shortcut to this continent
What is Asia?
Carib warriors sometimes tied these to their canoes as trophies
What are the limbs of their enemies?
Large agricultural estates where coffee, sugar, or tobacco are grown.
What are plantations?
Some Taínos chose this tragic act to escape enslavement
What is suicide?
This indigenous group originally lived in the Lesser Antilles and later took over Arawak lands
Who were the Caribs?
Spaniards forced Taíno men to work in these two types of labor sites.
What are gold mines and plantations?
Many Taínos died from these European illnesses
What are smallpox and measles?
The belief in making great amounts of money for national wealth.
What is mercantilism?
Thousands of Taínos died of disease because they lacked this
What is immunity?
Today, descendants of the Caribs mainly live on this Caribbean island
What is Dominica?
The greatest environmental impact Europeans brought to North America.
What is disease?
Some native peoples believed disease was a weapon used by these forces.
What are hostile spiritual forces?
The basic structures needed for society—roads, buildings, power lines.
What is infrastructure?
Today, many Taíno descendants live on these two islands.
What are Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic?