GEOG 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Haitian Vodou, Haitian Creole, The Columbian Exchange

• School: York University
• Department: Geography
• Course: GEOG 1000
• Professor: Peter Vandergeest

Document Summary

Part of the world we"re largely connected to some people are from here and usually go there for vacation. Guyana, belize, french guyana, and these countries are not latin and share a certain kind of history with the caribbean. Defined by a particular history (plantations and slavery) Directly colonized by the european countries (established plantations) imported large amounts of people from africa (to have these people as workers on plantations since the europeans were not immune to the diseases in the caribbean) Majority of the slaves went to the caribbean. Caribbean comes from the indigenous people who lived there called the caris the main crop was sugar, sugar cane. Economic from very wealthy (ex. , bermuda) to among the world"s poorest (ex. , haiti 70%