WebBetween 1492 and 1504, Italian explorer Christopher Columbus led four Spanish transatlantic maritime expeditions of discovery to the Americas.These voyages led to the widespread knowledge of the New World.This breakthrough inaugurated the period known as the Age of Discovery, which saw the colonization of the Americas, a related biological …

WebThe Greater Antilles (Spanish: Grandes Antillas or Antillas Mayores; French: Grandes Antilles; Haitian Creole: Gwo Zantiy; Jamaican Patois: Grieta hAntiliiz) is a grouping of the larger islands in the Caribbean Sea, including Cuba, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, and the Cayman Islands.Six island states share the region of the Greater Antilles, with Haiti …

WebSanto Domingo (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈsanto ðoˈmiŋɡo] meaning "Saint Dominic"), once known as Santo Domingo de Guzmán and Ciudad Trujillo, is the capital and largest city of the Dominican Republic and the largest metropolitan area in the Caribbean by population. As of 2022, the city and immediate surrounding area (the Distrito Nacional) had a …

WebThe Kalinago, also known as the Island Caribs or simply Caribs, are an indigenous people of the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean.They may have been related to the Mainland Caribs (Kalina) of South America, but they spoke an unrelated language known as Island Carib. They also spoke a pidgin language associated with the Mainland Caribs.. At the time of …

WebThe recorded history of the Dominican Republic began in 1492 when the Genoa-born navigator Christopher Columbus, working for the Crown of Castile, happened upon a large island in the region of the western Atlantic Ocean that later came to be known as the Caribbean.It was inhabited by the Taíno, an Arawakan people, who called the eastern …

WebLes Taïnos dénomment « cacique » le chef d'une unité territoriale dont le pouvoir se limitait à un yucayeque, un hameau, une vallée, etc.. Les Taïnos étaient divisés en un grand nombre de cacicazgos (« zone d'un cacique ») de dimension inégale, parfois tributaires d'autres cacicazgos.Le chroniqueur Fernández de Oviedo relate qu'à Hispaniola se …

WebSlave-owning people of what became Canada were, for example, the fishing societies, such as the Yurok, that lived along the Pacific coast from Alaska to California, ... Many Taíno died, particularly from smallpox, of which they had no immunity. Other Taínos committed suicide or left the island after the failed Taíno revolt of 1511. The Spanish colonists, …

WebAguadilla (Spanish pronunciation: [aɣwaˈðiʝa], locally [awaˈðiʝa]), founded in 1775 by Luis de Córdova, is a city and municipality located in the northwestern tip of Puerto Rico, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, north of Aguada, and Moca and west of Isabela.Aguadilla is spread over 15 barrios and Aguadilla Pueblo (the downtown area …

WebA partir da dieta do povo Taíno vêm muitas raízes tropicais e tubérculos como a yautía (taro) e especialmente a Yuca (mandioca), da qual é feito um fino pão casabe. Ajicito ou pimenta cachucha, pimenta habanero levemente quente, recao/culantro (folha espinhosa), achiote (urucum), pimentão, ají caballero (a pimenta mais quente nativa de Porto Rico), …

WebThe Zapotec civilization (Be'ena'a "The People"; c. 700 BC–1521 AD) was an indigenous pre-Columbian civilization that flourished in the Valley of Oaxaca in Mesoamerica.Archaeological evidence shows that their culture originated at least 2,500 years ago. The Zapotec archaeological site at the ancient city of Monte Albán has …