HISTORY 2EN3 : Winter 2011
27 Sep 2011
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Hispaniola: haiti and dominica was heavily populated by indigenous population. Hispaniola had a complex system of chieftains fought against one another = can organize themselves into political entity and the leaders had enough power to create armies. Hispaniola became the first center of spanish in caribbean. The spanish left when the aztecs were discovered on the main land period of neglect. The numbers of indigenous began to quickly fall. Two groups: tanio- arawak: larger islands. Spanish solidified the difference between the two groups and embedded it in their body of law. Contact was originally peaceful but very quickly became violent indigenous rebellion against the spanish; spanish victory. Warfare, social destruction, slavery, disease (small pox) led to the demise of the. History of slavery had its roots in early contact period. Saw caribbean as empty the working population came to see themselves as the indigenous population. Other europeans entered by the 16th century.
