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Conquest of the Caribbean

Conquest of the Caribbean. Who would Columbus Encounter?. Taino ( Aruak ) and the Carib Taino farmed & fished Caribs may have been cannibals. First Exchanges. Taino offered Columbus & his men food and gold jewelry Columbus forced the Taino to stop fishing & start mining gold.

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Conquest of the Caribbean

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  1. Conquest of the Caribbean

  2. Who would Columbus Encounter? • Taino (Aruak) and the Carib • Taino farmed & fished • Caribs may have been cannibals

  3. First Exchanges • Taino offered Columbus & his men food and gold jewelry • Columbus forced the Taino to stop fishing & start mining gold

  4. The “Great Dying” • About 95% of the Caribbean Indians died in the first 25 years of Spanish contact Florentine Codex Illustration by de Las Casas

  5. The Columbian Exchange

  6. Changes in Hispaniola • First Royal Governor Fray Ovando established repartimiento system • African slaves brought for labor in 1505 & 1518 • Bartolome de las Cases writes The Destruction of the Indies in 1552 Bartolome de lasCasas Thedor de Bry’s Depiction of the Indies

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