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the holidays, mostly Europeans. Story of Cuba Cuba was colonized by the Spanish. Where they settled in Havana in 1515. During the early 16th centry the Spanish kept coming in search of gold and they ended up enslaving and wiping out the Taino population. Many plantations were set up because Cuba was a federal land where many crops of sugar, coffee, and tobacco could be grown. With the growth of the farming industry and exports the Spanish started to bring in slaves to work the…

Puerto Rico is a commonwealth of the United States of America and actively participates in its government and its elections as much as any other American citizen would. The President of the territory is Barack Obama and its Vice President is Joe Biden, the same as the U.S., but the territory has a Governor who acts as the figurehead of Puerto Rico. That man is Alejandro Garcia Padilla, a member of the Democratic Party, and he was elected on January 2, 2013 (World Factbook). Even though the…

When Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492 the world had no idea what the effects on the environment would be. The interaction between the Europeans and the New World Inhabitants of North and South America and Africa, as well as Asia is still relevant in the ecological impact that took place between their encounters during the Age of Exploration and onward. The exchange of ideas was the utopian ideal but the utter truth was that the natural environment and human stewardship of that…

I will be keenly and succinctly investing the circulating claims that ' 'European men had little use for women in the era of conquest in the Americas, hence the lack of European women on voyages to the Caribbean up to the 1650s ' '. I will arrive at a measured conclusion, stating if the affirmations made is prejudice or nonpartisan, with the aid of credible sources which has been corroborated to avoid inaccuracy. The era of conquest which materialized over the period of 300 years…

Native Americans were the very first people to ever inhabit the Continent of the Americas. Although in 1492 Christopher Columbus sailed to the Americas in search for a route to Asia. Here he found gold, silver and a very primitive culture. His expedition led to a rise of explorers sailing to the Americas in search for new things. These expeditions took a horrible toll on the Native Americans. Findings suggest that there is not only one specific occurrence that caused the demise of the Native…

The study of the Native American cultures of the United States is one that is often considered a cultural issue rather than a political issue. From a certain point of view, this is indeed true; the European settlers took the natives’ land, often against their consent, and placed them in reserves, stripping them off of their political power and removing their status as the continent’s original settlers. Since then, they’ve only barely recovered their political standing, albeit at an extremely…

Rastafari and Vodou are two major world religions that are both intertwined with a long history of oppression, persecution, and connection to the African people. While not as well known as the other more “traditional” religions like Christianity or Islam, Rastafari and Vodou are both religions with followers numbering in the millions. They have had extraordinary impact on the cultural and political scenes in their respective countries of origin. While not everyone agrees with the beliefs of…

Massacre River is a novel about the "Parsley Massacre" " perejil" which is mainly centered around a young couple who falls in love. They are, the Dominican Pedro Brito and his beautiful Haitian wife Adèle who both live in Elias Piña. This is a city located close to the massacre river boarding between the Dominican Republic and The Republic of Haiti.This novel makes reference to the massacre or genocide happened in the Dominican Republic in 1937. The president Rafael Leonidas Trujillo ordered…

to leave. When Columbus was preparing to embark on his journey to India 30,000 people of the Jewish religion were burned at the stake since they did not agree to convert to Catholicism. The first Native Americans to encounter the Spanish were the Tainos. Columbus recorded in his diary that the Natives would easily be made Christians because it seemed as if they had no religion they believed in. The names of these natives that Christopher Columbus encountered was the Arawak Tribe of the Bahamas.…

This paper focuses on the Haitian cultural group. Haitians are a group of people whose nationality is Haiti. The term Haiti is derived from Taino Indians’ language, and it means mountainous country. Haitians speak creole as their national language. Currently, the population of Haitian immigrants is 0.3 percent of the total US population (Buchanan, Albert, Beaulieu and U.S. Census Bureau, 2010). American Community Survey of 2009 reports that 81 percent of people with Haitian ancestry who live…