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34 Cards in this Set
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Who were the first people to migrate to the West Indies?
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The LITHIC people
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The lithic people used what kind of tools
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flake stone
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The first SOUTH AMERICAN people to migrate to the West Indies were the
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ARCHAIC people
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The archaic people introduce what kind of technology?
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Ground stone
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These people were mostly found in the Leeward Islands and Lesser Antilles
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Archaic
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The ____ people ring in the Ceramic Age at __BC
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Saladoid, 500
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Saladoid activity begins in
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Puerto Rico
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After the emergence of the Taino, there was shift from____ to ___
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Community to Individual Lineage
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Suggests that some people are better than others
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Individual Lineage
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These were the setting when elites tried to resolve their disputes
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Ball courts
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For communal celebrations held by elites
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Plaza
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A very large habitation site with no ball court or stone lined plazas
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Caonaba
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The Ostionoid expansion was from:
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6-900 AD
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Social intensification of Pre-Taino chiefdoms took place
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- AD 900-1200:
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Taino chiefdoms emerged during
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1200 BC
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This person rounded the Cape of Good Hope, originally Storms, and proved the Indian Ocean was accessible by the Atlantic.
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Bartholemew Diaz
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The first European who went to India by sea- "Admiral of the Indian Seas" did a fair amount of pirating
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Vasco De Gama
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This person was responsible for the first circumnavigation of the glove, though he himself was killed by a poison arrow on the journey
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Ferdinand Magellan
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This divided the non Christian world in two
Portugal got lands to the east of meridian, Spain the west Spain faired much better |
Treaty of Tordesillas
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Established by Columbus's men in Haiti
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La Navidad
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Columbus's second voyage was to
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Dominica, the Leeward Islands
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This was established as a trading post, but only lasted 4 years and suffered from hunger and disease
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La Isabella
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Columbus's third Voyage was to
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South America, landed in Trinidad
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Columbus was marooned for a year in
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Jamaica
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From 1500-1520 in the West Indies this occurred in the West Indies
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Massive indigenous population decline, disease, starvation, mistreatment
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This helps to spread diseases from Asia to Europe
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The Silk Road
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In the late Pleistocene period conditions were
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Cool and arid
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Conditions became warmer and moister with more tropical forests during the
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Early Holocene period
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This researcher did the first archaeological work in The Bahama Archipelago, Jamaica and Hispaniola, and The Virgin Islands
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Theodore De Booy
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The father of modern Caribbean archeology and inventor and custodian of the taxonomy of West Indian Culture
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Irving Rouse
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The Lithic Age was from
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4500-2500 BC
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The Archaic Age was from
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2500 to 500 BC
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The Ceramic Age was from
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500 BC to 1500 AD
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A woody shrub
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Manioc/Cassava
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