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The History of the Caribbean

‘‘In 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue’’ is one of the most famous phrases in America. In 1492 the King and Queen of Spain kicked out the Moors and Jews because they did not worship the Catholic faith. The moors were African Mulisms that ruled Spain for 2,203 years … that’s around 7 centuries from 711 A.D. to 1492 and Jews were from Israel. In 1492 Columbus was at court with King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella to discuss about travel to Asia. Columbus wanted to travel to what he thought was the far west instead of the far east which is where (explain the geography here)and about that the world is round and not flat but the world is bigger then his thinks. And so in 1492 August ,3 Columbus at the bussy habor at palos, Spain was ready. The king and queen provided Columbus with three small ships: santa maria: captian christopter columbus nina: captian vicente yanez pinzon pinta: captian martin alonso pinzon :a younge crew member named juan reynal I belive is my mom’s great great grandfather! As columbus left his ships arrvied in the canary Islands near morroco, africa supplying food and water. For days without land the spanish crew memebers where afriad and wanted to throw the captians overbord and where tired of eating the same food such as meat and salt water. Columbus asked for three more days. During 2 hours over midnight of october .12,1492 a young man named juan rodregeuz on the pinta ship caught land and yeld ‘’LAND LAND’’the Spaniards yeld!

In the morning of oct.12,1492 Columbus and the small ships arrived. Columbus bowed to his knees thanking god he has founded land he believes to be Asia. In the Bahamas at an island named Guanhani by the Arawak/Taino Indians. Columbus renamed San Salvador. The Taino Indians were the frist to welcome Columbus in the new world. The Tainos are believes to be the relatives of the Arawaks Indians. It began thousands of years before Columbus when the oratoriod people were migrated from the Oronoco river in Venezuela.The frist inhabited people were the cibony natives to rule the Caribbean years later the Oronoco people waves came. the frist Orinoco group was the saladiod group between 2000 to 3000 B.C.Then the arawaks arrived in 430 B.C. And somehow they clashed and formed and developed a new culture …Taino. In 1000A.D. at the time of the viknigs taino became dominate because of the trade with the maya Indians cultures from the yutacan pinulsula of mexico. And began to spread out thought the Greater Antilles (larger Islands).The tainos did have a enemy…the caribs ,whom the Caribbean was named. The caribs were warlike natives from the south American region of venezuela. The word carib is how the caribbean sea was named. the caribs were the last natives to arrived in the Caribbean. They where warlike native Americans to rule the lesser Antilles after the tainos. From the time of the carib migration as they where taking over the lesser Antilles one by one, they killed the younge children and men as cannibalism feeding there body parts to there families and enslaving the taino womens. The caribs only brought men and not women so they took the taino women as wives and slaves. Back to Columbus Columbus kidnapped a few natives to act as guides before leaving two days off from san Salvador to ask where the Golds where. He stoped at three mores islands over the nexts two weeks. He named Fernandina, Santa Maria de la Concepcion and Isabela. He also stoped at ragged Is., isla de arena (sand islands) before leaving the Bahamas. As following his natives guides he arrived in cuba on oct.28,1492. He search fruitless weeks in cuba for gold or the Chinese civilization he read in morco polo’s books. His native guides said to have more gold eastern. While sailing north of cuba on Nov.22,1492 the captian of the pinta who was martin alonso pinzon sailed off with out permission on his own route for gold in an island called “babeque’’ or ‘’baneque’’ where was much more gold told by his native guides. After sailing with the remaining of two ships Columbus sailed around the eastern end as far as punta guayacanes before reaching hispanola on dec .5,1492 .On Christmas eve,1492 the main ship ,santa maria grounded in cape Haiti on the shore and sunk the next day.On the shore his men build a fort called la navidad (Christmas). On January 2,1493 Columbus sailed on the nina leaving his men of 39 behind in haiti. after Columbus was sailing thoungh hispanola he caunght the pinta. Columbus was angry at pinzon and so they both sailed to spain.Columbus arrived at Lisbon,portugaul and pinzon at bayona in northern spain. Soon Columbus arrived back to palos ,spain and became a hero .But pinzon arrived two hours later and was expected to be a hero. Pinzon died a few days later.

Second voyage of Columbus

After honoring Christopher Columbus the king and queen realize that the world he found was a new world. So in 1493 Columbus sailed the ocean blue once again. From Cadiz ,Spain 1493 sep,25 Columbus sailed off to the new world with the first livestock of animals: pigs,horse,dogs and cattles. He saw land on Nov,3 and arrived on Nov,4 to Nov,10 1493 in Guadeloupe where the caribs lived for 100s of years before his discovery and also discovered dominica and then passed thought all the other islands without landing on them but named them. Columbus rescued the native arawaks from the warlike caribs in guandeloupe. They guided Columbus to a larger island called beriken and they jumped off the ships to the shore into their home village. He finally reaches the Greater Antilles on Nov ,19 1493 in an island called beriken by the Taino Indian .Columbus sailed the east, south and west part at where he arrived at Aguadilla, Puerto Rico .Columbus called the island San Juan Butistia in Spanish for saint john the Baptist as honor. Columbus stayed on the island for three hole days gathering fresh fruit, fish and water on the island and meeting the native peoples of the island. But the Indians made a big mistake when they showed them gold in the mines but they give them gold because the Spaniards did not know any better. The island after Columbus was ignored by Spain for 15 years. On Nov 22, 1493 Columbus returns to Hispanola and the fort was burned by the taino natives because of the Spaniards that tired to destroy there way of life. On the third voyage Columbus created a system that was given to the Indians who were 14 years of age was to deliver a hawk bell full of gold every three months. If this was lack then 25 pound of spun cotton.The natives, as they tribute to the spaniards they were given a copper coin around their neck.If this was not observe the natives had their hands cut off and were left the bleed to death. This was not what the queen expected so the queen in 1502(10 years after Columbus)sent Nicolas De Ovando from Spain to Hispanola as the first new govenor of...The New World.A new system was sent to the new world called encomienda and was used for protecting the natives from warring tribes and to treat them fairly and convert them in to christian faith and Spanish language. later during the colonization of the Americas from Hispanola to Puerto Rico and on,the Spanish began to destroy there way of life and used extreame punishment and harsh treatment against them if they resisted. the natives began to die from disease and murder and almost vanish before the presant day. half of the caribbean people are 20% to 65% native and they are no longer full blooded.