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April 30, 2014
The Beautiful Caribbean
Before Arrival of Europeans
Ciboney - 1st native people in Caribbean
Arawaks - arrive ca. 300 BCE
-South American natives
Caribs - arrive ca. 1000 CE
-South American Natives
Columbus arrives 1492
Trying to find a way to sail to
India
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More Europeans would follow...
By the 1600s the Dutch, French, & British were coming...
- Looking to get rich
- Built big sugar plantations
- Brought their diseases along
- killing most of the native people
Big agriculture requires lots of manpower
-they bring in African slaves
Most modern people in the Caribbean today are descended from these slaves
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All this wealth in the Caribbean drew pirates
Caribbean Economy Today...
-fishing
-agriculture
-bananas
-yams
-cacao
-some sugar (not as much as before)
-tourism
Caribbean Culture Today...
Language:
European languages
Mix of European & African (creole)
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Today, most Caribbean people are descendants of African slaves
-also:
-mestizos
-mix of native & colonizing power
-Caribs
-only about 300 left
-immigrants from other countries
Caribbean Culture Today...
Religion:
Mainly Catholic (Christians)
-brought by Spanish
Some traditional African religion
Other religions as well
Caribbean Culture Today...
Music:
Reggae
-"up" beat on 2 & 4
-often political lyrics
Calypso
-steel drums
-funny lyrics
Jamaican Dancehall
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April 30, 2014
Lent - 40 days before Easter
-always starts on Ash Wednesday
Carnival starts before Lent
Like Mardi Gras in New Orleans