HISTORY 2CS3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Spanish West Indies, Sugarcane, Greater Antilles
11 Feb 2020
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Learning outcomes: describe political and economic developments in the caribbean from the late 15th, explain the strategic importance" of puerto rico and cuba for the spanish empire in century to the 16th century the americas. Focusing on spanish areas of colonization and early systems of labour exploitation in the caribbean. Spanish colonization in the caribbean in the late 15th and 16th centuries: 2. Labour and the colonial economy in cuba and puerto rico: 3. The strategic importance of cuba and puerto rico. Caribbean islands were the first places the spanish conquered and colonized in the. Americas: hispaniola, puerto rico, cuba, jamaica, trinidad. Spanish conquered wealthy territories of mainland of south america: paid less attention to caribbean. Islands weren"t as rich in mineral resources and what little there was were exhausted. Many spaniards left the islands when the mainland was conquered.
