populations: Tainos and the Siboneys. Both indigenous groups‚ Tainos and Siboneys migrated to the Caribbean region. The first indigenous group to migrate to the Caribbean was the Siboneys. Although their origin has been debated‚ the common perception is that they came from either the southern top of modern day Florida or Mexico. It is estimated that around 500 B.C. they settled in the Greater Antilles region of the Caribbean. This region includes the Bahamas‚ Cuba and Jamaica. The Taino migration
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or conquest. The Tainos and Kalinagoes entered the Caribbean through South America. They gained entrance through Orinoco Basin between Venezuela and Trinidad. Some settled in the Lesser Antilles (Kalinagoes) others went to the Greater Antilles (Tainos). These indigenous people did not come empty handed‚ they came with their diverse culture. Spanish greed resulted in the enslavement of Tainos under the encomienda system: noblemen were granted lands under repartimiento and Tainos under encomienda so
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answer the questions that follow. The Taino (Arawak) and Kalinago (Caribs) were similar in many ways‚ but different in others. For example‚ their technology was quite similar‚ but their political organization was to some extent different. Their technology was not as advanced as that of the Maya. a) Explain why Mayan technology is considered more advanced than the technology of the Arawaks and Caribs. (4 marks) b) Outline the ways in which the technology of Taino and Kalinago were similar. (9 marks)
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HISTORY OF THE CARIBBEAN LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN STUDIES UNIT HUMANITIES COURSE SYLLABUS History of the Caribbean: LAC 108 Tuesday and Thursday: 11:00AM-12:15PM Professor: Ana Ozuna‚ Ph.D. Office Hours: Monday and Wednesday‚ 2:00PM-3:30PM Office: C-417 E-mail: aozuna@hostos.cuny.edu Tel.: 718-518-6852 REQUIRED TEXTS Palmié‚ S.‚ & Scarano‚ F. A. (Eds.). (2011) The Caribbean‚ a History of the Region and Its Peoples. Chicago: UP Chicago. ISBN-13: 978-0226645087 Handouts
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groups of people having completely different personalities. One group was the Arawaks or Taino which occupied the Greater Antilles and the other was the Caribs or Kalinago which occupied the Lesser Antilles. The Arawaks were a very peaceful group of people; slim and short‚ but firmly built. The Caribs on the other hand were very aggressive people and were taller and had a bigger built than the Arawaks. The Caribs were also cannibals and some people assume that is why they were bigger than the Arawaks
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people. They are separated into three groups‚ the Tainos‚ the Kalinagos and the Mayans. The Kalinagos and Tainos‚ also known as Caribs and Arawaks respectively‚ are called the Amerindians. Although they all lived in the Caribbean‚ they had different economic‚ social and religious practices. Their ways of living were different but there were some similarities‚ and they were also even more advanced than others with technology and architecture. The Tainos also known as the Arawaks were the largest of
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until 600 CE.[1] The Taíno of the Greater Antilles represented the last stage of the Ostionoid cultural tradition. By about AD 1100-1200‚ the Ostionoid people of Hispaniola lived in a wider and more diverse geographic area than did their predecessors; their villages were larger and more formally arranged‚ farming was intensified‚ and a distinctive material culture developed. They developed rich and vibrant ritual and artistic traditions that are revealed in Taíno craftsmanship in using bone
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were one of the first set of people to populate the Eastern Caribbean and they established many civilizations. The Amerindian people were made up of two unique and distinctive groups; the Arawaks‚ which were also known as Taino‚ who populated the Greater Antilles and the Caribs‚ which were also known as Kalinagos‚ who resided in the Lesser Antilles. In this day and age‚ there is no existence of the great civilizations that once were around but a few Amerindians have been confined to a few of the
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cooled by trade winds with a good climate. The indigenous population of the Caribbean probably didn’t exceed three quarters of a million and most of them lived on the Hispaniola Island. The main types of people comprised the Ciboney‚ the Taino Arawak and the Carib. In some case its hard to track the history of some of these people but most of them left their history in pottery and paintings which was important in determining their ways of life. For the Arawaks‚ settlements ranged from single
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lived in the Caribbean before the arrival of the Europeans in 1492. (2 marks) ANSWER Tainos (Arawaks) and Kalinagos Caribs (b) Give two examples of the way of life before 1492 of any one of the groups named at (a) above (6 marks) ANSWER (Group Tainos) The cacique was the head of the Tainos society. The cacique was a hereditary title which passed down from father to son. Generally speaking‚ the Tainos practised monogamy. However‚ the cacique was allowed to practise polygamy (this was to
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