CRB 100 Lecture 1: CRB 100 Module 1

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Caribbean Studies
• Course: CRB 100
• Professor: Karen Naidoo

Document Summary

The caribbean- combination of both islands and mainland territories running from the. Bahamas in the north, barbados to the east, french guyane to the south and belize to the west: some scholars define the caribbean as any country touched by the caribbean sea. Other ways defined: many caribbean countries belong to various organizations such as the association of. Caribbean states (acs) and the organization of american states (oas) (geopolitically: many english-speaking caribbean countries belong to the caribbean community and. Africa, asia, the middle east and north america. Indigenous people have been living in the caribbean thousands of years before the invasions by european forces, starting with christopher columbus in 1492: first europeans to arrive, the spanish, attempted to dominate and conquer the. Indigenous peoples, enslaving them to mine gold: therefore, the inception of european colonialism in the region was accompanied by slavery, first of the existing indigenous peoples, then of the imported african peoples.