Essay :1 NANY Colombia is my country Located near the Equator on the Caribbean coast of Colombia the Barranquilla climate is tropical‚ as a result in Barranquilla weather conditions are typically hot and humid throughout the year with an average daytime temperature of 33° C (91° F) bilingue and at nighttime the temperature does not fall below 22° C (70° C) very often. The affect of the heat is amplified by the humidity‚ which is between 75% and 90%. The dry season falls in January‚ February
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from their families. The Spaniards began their colonization around 1492. The most famous exploration was Christopher Columbus’. He was attempting to find a direct route to India by going westward. Instead of finding India‚ he landed in the Caribbeans. He opened up the horizons for the likes of Pizarro and Cortes to come into the Americas and begin conquest. They used the
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land-based empires (Trading post empires) Was European expansion in the Atlantic and the Indian Ocean worlds different? Territorial empires in the Americas: the Spaniards and the Portuguese Settler colonies of the French‚ English‚ the Dutch in the Caribbean and North America Cartaz- way to tax trade (Portugal (European)) Europeans had an advantage How the colonial Empires in the Americas were built and sustained? Conquer and Consolidation (Colonial administration) Mining: encomienda‚ the tribute
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queen to ask them for the money‚ they agreed on the condition that he paid them back. When Columbus got to what he thought was Asia‚ but in reality was the caribbean islands‚ he captured slaves and sent them back to spain. This didn’t make him as much money as he hoped because most of the slaved died on the ships returning from the caribbean. When he went back he had the help of hundreds of slaves to help him find gold. When the
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and La Ceiba. One of the most important attractions in Honduras is Roatan‚ the largest of the Bay Islands off the Caribbean coast of the country. It is famous for having the world’s second longest coral reef‚ which flourishes with a colorful and vivid undersea life. According to Dan Taylor in Destination360 "In recent years‚ Roatan has become a regular stop-off on western Caribbean cruises and a favored destination for Honduras vacations." Dan claims that each year more tourists are attracted to
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Some form of slavery existed in Africa before Europeans arrived; however it was a system of temporary consequences. People were enslaved as punishment for a crime‚ to pay a debt‚ or as captives of war. African slavery was very different from what was to come later with the Europeans because it was not for personal gain and inhumane suffering of others. Unlike European slavery‚ African slaves could work to buy their freedom and their children were not automatically slaves. Captive Africans and their
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In latin America and the Caribbean mita‚ slavery‚ and wage labor were evident as labor systems in 1750‚ but by 1914 wage labor became a dominate labor system.Over time‚ Latin America’s labor system went from slavery to indentured servitude. As a result of European conquest and colonization there was a dramatic shift in African labor from agriculture‚ trade‚ bronzing and certain specialized crafts to mine labor and felling forests. There were also certain things that remained the same‚ like the use
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Orality‚ folkalization and syncretising in Derek Walcott’s Ti-Jean and his Brothers Walcott’s dramatic art is an artistic reservoir‚ reflecting the new intellectual trends of the twentieth century Caribbean world. The time when Walcott was writing marked a period of political and creative activity. Walcott himself pointed out the need for bringing together the different creative elements from African‚ European and West Indian art traditions. The most powerful among the indigenous cultural
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Capital: Castries Population: 161‚557 Location: Caribbean‚ island between the Caribbean Sea and North Atlantic Ocean‚ north of Trinidad and Tobago The flag of Saint Lucia was adopted on March 1‚ 1967. The exact design has varied. The current flag is cerulean blue‚ with a gold isosceles triangle below a black arrowhead. The upper edges of the arrowhead have a white border. The flag was designed by Saint Lucian artist‚ Dunstan St Omer.The blue color stands for the blue sky and blue ocean that
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Portuguese and Spanish Slavery Thus when Portugal and Spain established the first American colonies‚ they first introduced Africans as a labor source in the New World. Both encountered difficulties turning the native American people into a slave labor force. The Spanish were more successful as they encountered the settled agraian societies of the Andes and central Mexico. The Spanish engaged in a debate concerning the humanity of the Native Americans. The Native Americans were in the end turned into
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