Geographical
The two subregions that make up the Antilles.
Greater Antilles, Lesser Antilles
The tectonic plate underlying much of the Caribbean region.
What is the Caribbean Plate?
Four Caribbean countries that are a Republics.
What is Dominica, Guyana, Trinidad, Barbados
Which of the following BEST describes a historical feature of the Caribbean?
A. archipelago
B. enslavement
C. Commonwealth
D. Caribbean Basin
What is Enslavement- it is a historical process central to the Caribbean’s past.
The term used to describe a population living outside its homeland but maintaining ties.
What is Diaspora
The phrase often used to describe the geographical Caribbean.
What are the “lands washed by the Caribbean Sea”?
Two natural hazards linked to the Caribbean Plate.
What are earthquakes and volcanoes?
Two types of political status in the Caribbean today.
What are republics, monarchies, colonies, départements, associated states, or dependencies?
Which of the following systems is associated with the Chinese presence in the Caribbean?
Slavery
Encomienda
Indentureship
Repartimiento
What is indentureship
Two countries where large Caribbean diasporas exist today.
What are the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, France, or the Netherlands?
Three territories debated or excluded under the geographical definition.
What are Barbados, Bermuda, and The Bahamas?
Three areas excluded under the geological definition.
What are Guyana, The Bahamas, and much of Cuba?
Which of the following is an independent Caribbean country?
Anguilla
Montserrat
Haiti
Martinique
What is Haiti
Why is the historical definition considered more comprehensive than the geographical or geological definitions?
What is that it includes shared cultural, social, and historical experiences across all territories, not just physical space?
One example of an ethnic diaspora within the Caribbean.
What are East Indians in Trinidad and Guyana / Chinese in Jamaica / Javanese in Suriname, etc.?
The reason why latitude and longitude alone cannot fully define the Caribbean.
What is that they are subjective because the boundaries gets changed according to the map used.
What the western edge of the Caribbean Plate reveals about surface geography vs. subterranean geography.
What is that surface geography can be misleading, as the plate extends into the Pacific?
The Commonwealth Caribbean is made up of countries which
Are former British colonies
Have communist leadership
Are ruled by the British monarch
Have the same development status
What is Are former British colonies
Imagine you are asked to explain what unites a Trinidadian and a Haitian historically. What two common processes could you highlight?
What are slavery and resistance against colonialism?
Give ONE reason why the diasporic definition may be more relevant today than the geographical definition.
What is because migration and globalisation spread Caribbean identity worldwide, beyond territorial boundaries
Name two Mainland territories included in the geographic definition
What is Belize, Guyana
The movements that impact and influence the Earth's surface
What is plate tectonics
Give ONE example of a dependency or colony still tied to a European metropole.
What is Montserrat (Britain) / Guadeloupe (France) / Puerto Rico (United States)?
Imagine a debate where someone argues that geography alone defines the Caribbean. Using history, provide TWO reasons why this view is limited.
What are: (1) it excludes territories like Barbados and Bahamas, and (2) it ignores shared processes like slavery, indentureship, and independence that link all territories?
Critique the diasporic definition: what is one major strength and one limitation in using it to define the Caribbean?
Strength: it includes the global dimension of identity. Limitation: it is difficult to locate or measure geographically.