Hispaniola

Narrator: Roatan is sheltered by the second largest living coral reef in the world; it’s called the Mesoamerican Reef System. Here on the island, protection of this international treasure is entrusted to the Roatan Marine Park. Christi Etches: The Mesoamerican Reef System starts from Quintana Roo in Mexico, and it comes all the way down past Belize, past the little nook of Guatemala and onto the northern coast of Honduras. It’s the second largest barrier reef in the world. Narrator: The…

ASSIGNMENT 1: INVESTMENT IN ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA SUBMITTED TO: PROF. NAKUL SINGH CHAUHAN ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA Antigua and Barbuda is a twin-island country in the Americas, lying between the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. It consists of two major inhabited islands, Antigua and Barbuda, and a number of smaller islands (including Great Bird, Green, Guinea, Long, Maiden and York Islands and further south, the island of Redonda). The permanent…

The Karankawa were speculated to be descendants of the “Carib” indians who according to Wikipedia, arrived by sea from the Caribbean basin in the seventeenth century. They were observed to be taller than any of the other indians in the region, and resembled the Caribs. The Karankawa Indians lived in the Coastal Plains region, along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. Their territory extended from the west end of present day Galveston down to Corpus Christi. We know that there were several tribes or…

power. One instance occurred on the Island of Hispaniola, which is present day Haiti, when a group of slaves led a revolt against their French leaders. Another instance occurred in Iran, when Islamic nationalists in Iran tried to overthrow the Iran leaders known as the Shah. The last instance occurred in Northern Nigeria, where the Fulani people revolted against the local Hausa rulers to try and set up an Islamic state. On the island of Hispaniola, presently known as Haiti, French…

The island of Hispaniola was the first New World colony settled by Spain. The island was first sighted by Christopher Columbus in 1492 and the land was inhibited by a friendly Indian tribe called the Tainos (Arawaks), who welcomed Columbus and his crew. Shortly after discovering the New World, Columbus also discovered something else: gold. With gold in mind, Columbus made his journey back to Spain to inform others of the good news. On his second fleet, 1500 Europeans ventured to the island as…

As we know, after the exploration of Hispaniola in 1492, Spaniards began to colonize the island immediately. They enslaved the native population – Taino Indians and launched different campaigns like “Factoria” system - initiated by Columbus, “Ecomienda” system – initiated by Spanish crown, and “Repartamiento” system – initiated by the Spanish crown as well. Repartamiento of 1514 was the cause of social and economic mismanagement of the colony Hispaniola. It was the system which caused the great…

history in Hispaniola and beyond. Yunoir’s rewriting of history is accomplished in several ways. One notable way is through the format of the book, which uses footnotes in order to add histories of the Dominican Republic, a fantasy character, Trujillo, etc. This format at first could signal an academic text “in which there is a separation between the content and the historical data that inform it,” but the footnotes in this novel instead provide an insight into the Dominican History that…

Throughout the years of the European colonization of the Americas, there were many different experiences in settling these areas. In colonizing the “New World,” the Europeans faced numerous challenges in doing so; including little knowledge of the area they were pressing into, a lack of preparation and supplies, and conflicts with the people already living in these inhabited spaces. In the colonizers’ perspective, it was a large gamble and risk to develop their spheres of influences, or even…

that gives you youth. I returned home after the trip, wondering if there was such a thing. I quickly forgot about that and built settlement in Hispaniola for further Spanish island colony for Spain. I then heard of gold nearby Puerto Rico, which the king sent me to search for in 1508. I took 50 soldiers and 1 ship, and came back a year later to Hispaniola with much gold. I was named governor of Puerto Rico. The sea that time was a sailor’s wish, as for the sea was blue and true. That trip was…

So, Columbus sailed from Spain in 1492. He supplied the ship in Porto Rico, Cuba, and finally arriving on an island that he named Hispaniola, (present day Haiti) in 1494. When he returned to Spain, Columbus had gold , spices, sugar cane, and Indian natives. The King ordered Columbus to return to Hispaniola with slaves to establish colonies. He arrived in Hispaniola with a ship full of slave in 1511. But nine year later, the slaves revolted, because of ill treatment, and staged the first slave…