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I want to introduce myself. Who am I? My name is Anthony Rey and I was born in Jefferson hospital in Philadelphia. I have black straight hair, dark brown eyes my head shape looks Native American. This is my background on my father's side. His tribe was the Tainos. I have seen many Native Americans on television and real life and I believe I look similar to some of them. I like history, construction and music. I also like to learn about deadly diseases. I like to read about historical myth and I like to play video games.

What do I feel like inside? I hate is to see death from abuse and slaughter. I have done a lot of research about my heritage and one of the things I learned about was the history of the Caribbean which is where my family comes from. I heard that all over the Caribbean, the Spaniards slaughtered the native Taino Indians for their gold. (not sure what this next part means here????): During the 15th century force in search over the mines of gold (remember Anthony, this is about your identity. If you want to tell a bit about the slaughter of the Taino, you must explain to your audience how this fits into your identity)

The History of the Caribbean

The phrase,‘‘In 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue’’ is one of the most famous in America. in 1492 the king and queen of Spain kicked out the Moors and the Jews. The Moors were African Muslms that ruled Spain for 2,203 years. That’s around 7 centuries from 711 A.D. to 1492. The Jews were from Israel. In 1492 Columbus was at court with King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella to discuss his desire to travel to the far west instead of the far east. He claimed the world is round and not flat and though he was right about that the world was bigger then he thought.

And so in 1492 on August 3rd, Columbus prepared to sail from the busy harbor of Palos, Spain. The king and queen had provided Columbus with three small ships: The Santa Maria with its captain, Christopter Columbus, the Nina with its captain, Vicente Yanez Pinzon and the Pinta with its captain, Martin Alonso Pinzon. There was also young crew member named Juan Reynal whom I belive is my mom’s great great grandfather! Columbus ships first arrvied in the Canary Islands near Morrocco, Africa where they were supplyed with food and water. For days the ships traveled with no sign of land. The spanish crew memebers where afraid and wanted to thow the captains overboard. They were 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 12th,1492 a young man named Juan Rodregeuz on the Pinta caught sight of land and yelled, ‘’LAND LAND’’ and so did the other Spaniards yell. MY EDITING WILL CONTINUE HERE. NOW I MUST REST! MS.P 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.