LAH 4472 Midterm: Midterm Study Guide
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Introduction to the caribbean: what makes things caribbean, prolonged european colonization. Spanish (first to colonize): 4 large islands + trinidad (16th century) British: barbados, jamaica (in mid 1600s), anguilla, other leeward islands, grenada, French: haiti (17th century formerly st. domingue), martinique, guadaloupe, Denmark: present-day u. s. virgin islands (st. thomas, st. john, st. croix) Most areas are inhabited by people of african ancestry due to plantation slavery (spanish islands of cuba, puerto rico, and the dominican republic are not mostly. Blacks arrived in costa rica & panama recently: slavery, makeup of caribbean, caribbean = islands + guyanas + belize, three sections of caribbean islands: Greater antilles: cuba, hispaniola, jamaica, puerto rico. Windward islands (southern lesser antilles: caribbean basin = politically invented term to describe homogenous region with economic and political instability, languages, spanish is most common (21 million speakers, creole languages.
