shared the Island of Hispaniola for five centuries‚ until the Dominican Republic gain their independence from Haiti. Now the only thing separating these two islands is the Massacre River. The Massacre River was derived from the President of the Dominican Republic which ordered his troops to kill all Haitian people and descendants. This maybe a little confusing because the Dominican side of the island was under the rule of Spanish (Spain) and Haiti was rule by the French. The Hispaniola island was one of
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agreement‚ Columbus would be named admiral‚ become the governor of any lands he discovered‚ and receive a tax-free ten percent share of any riches found in the new lands. The voyages of Christopher Columbus changed history. When he landed on Hispaniola he brought what was later coined the ’Columbus exchange’; a dramatically widespread exchange of animals‚ plants‚ culture and human populations (including slaves)‚ communicable diseases‚ and ideas between the Eastern and Western hemispheres. Columbus
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continue doing so well past 2022. In August of 2012‚ a new president was elected. The future of the Dominican Republic lies in the new presidents plans to boost the economy and drop crime rates. The Dominican Republic is located on the island of Hispaniola between the Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea. Its exact coordinates are 18.9473° N‚ 70.4811° W. The Dominican Republic shares the island with Haiti‚ to the West‚ and is approximately 48‚320 square kilometers; slightly more than twice the size
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people of the Dominican Republic use the merengue as a form of identification. The merengue is the passion of the people of Hispaniola. The merengue has affected the Dominican Republic culturally‚ through its social realities‚ and artistically (Austerlitz). Historically‚ the merengue is the inspiration behind the people of the Dominican Republic. The island of Hispaniola was first discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1492. For over twenty-two years the Dominicans were under the control of the
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culture is a mixture of French‚ African elements‚ and native Taíno‚ with influence from the colonial Spanish. “The country’s customs essentially are a blend of cultural beliefs that derived from the various ethnic groups that inhabited the island of Hispaniola.” “In nearly all aspects of modern Haitian society however‚ the European and African elements dominate. Haiti is
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two-room shacks‚ usually with a front porch without electricity or running water. These homes are assembled with rock or wattle and blotch with mud. In other regions walls are made from chop native palm. Particularly in the south‚ houses are made of Hispaniola pine and local hardwoods. Haiti is hard living and the poverty is harsher than most cultures. Unfortunately Haiti is the poorest country not only the Western Hemisphere but also in the world. Men control the workforce. Women are responsible for
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Chavelle MIatland Montego Bay Community College History (Yr2) “The recorded history of the West Indies does not grow gradually‚ as most Old World histories grow‚ out of a more remote mythological or archaeological past. It begins abruptly with a definite event: the arrival of the first European discoverers in Columbus’s fleet in 1492.”1 This quote sums up the written (from a European point of view) historical finding of what is now known as the West Indies based on the writings of cartographer
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were the Arawaks. The Arawaks were migrants from Central and South America‚ who expanded their homelands to the Northern and Southern regions of Cuba and Trinidad. They occupied larger areas‚ such as Cuba‚ Hispaniola‚ Jamaica‚ Puerto Rico and were believed to share Cuba and Hispaniola with the Ciboney. They traveled in large canoes‚ which were man-made from tree trunks and held fairly significant amounts of people. It is said they traveled down the Orinoco and arrived to Trinidad‚ where
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diet! E. Moving - They used dugout canoes which were cut from a single tree trunk and used with paddles. They could take 70-80 people in a single canoe and even used them for long travels on the sea. These dugouts allowed fishing the few lakes of Hispaniola as well as fishing out a bit off the
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effective enforcement of these reforms. In the following excerpt from The Tears of the Indians‚ Las Casas recounts the brutal behavior of the Spaniards toward the native inhabitants of Hispaniola whom he described as a people "devoid of wickedness and duplicity ... or desire for vengeance." On the Island Hispaniola was where the Spaniards first landed‚ as I have said. Here those Christians perpetrated their first ravages and oppressions against the native peoples. This was the first land in the
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