Essays Tagged: "Hispaniola"
Small pox
came known as an epidemic disease that ended up killinghundreds of people. Small pox started out in Hispaniola and because of no cure, ittraveled to the island of Puerto Rico, and then Cuba. It was on ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases
Ponce de leon
oined Columbus on his 2nd voyage to the Americas. After that he settled on a Caribbean island named Hispaniola to improve his fortunes and start a warlike life. At that time on Hispaniola he became a ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science
Small pox
came known as an epidemic disease that ended up killinghundreds of people. Small pox started out in Hispaniola and because of no cure, ittraveled to the island of Puerto Rico, and then Cuba. It was on ... came known as an epidemic disease that ended up killinghundreds of people. Small pox started out in Hispaniola and because of no cure, ittraveled to the island of Puerto Rico, and then Cuba. It was on ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases
All About Smallpox
came known as an epidemic disease that ended up killinghundreds of people. Small pox started out in Hispaniola and because of no cure, ittraveled to the island of Puerto Rico, and then Cuba. It was on ... came known as an epidemic disease that ended up killinghundreds of people. Small pox started out in Hispaniola and because of no cure, ittraveled to the island of Puerto Rico, and then Cuba. It was on ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology
Christianity as a Tool of Conquest.
n" (de las Casas, 13) was seen from the moment these Christians stepped on the land. Beginning with Hispaniola, and continuing through until they reached the kingdom of New Granada, these conquerors d ... erors destroyed everything they found and saw in order to acquire goods or fulfill their purpose.In Hispaniola, the Europeans took women and children as slaves to "satisfy their own base appetites" (d ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Christianity
European Ethnocentrism regarding the writtings for Native Americans
tries that sought out to create new colonies. It told about Christopher Columbus's second voyage to Hispaniola and his treatment of the Indians. With this voyage to Hispaniola, Christopher Columbus br ... o include the Indian's perspective of how they felt about Christopher Columbus creating a colony in Hispaniola, and what they thought about him starting to make slaves out of the Indians. Instead of g ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
This is information on Puerto Rico
y 1000 miles southeast of Miami. To the west lie the other larger islands of the Greater Antilles - Hispaniola (the Dominican Republic and Haiti), Jamaica and Cuba - while to the east is Saint Thomas ...
Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays
Christopher Columbus' enslavement and exploitation of the Caribbean's Amerindians. Also, his reasons for searching for new colonies.
SECTION 1 : The Discovery of Hispaniola.Columbus made his voyages to the New World for many reasons. One of them is because he wa ... bus' life was saved. He named this new colony after Queen Isabella and later on it became known as "Hispaniola."The islands that Columbus found contained no gold or any other precious metals. However, ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > World History
Endangered Species:The Rhinocerous Iguana
ction between the two animals. Also, the Mona Island ground iguana will eat different food than the Hispaniola Iguana because of the different types of vegetation and animals found on the islands. Man ... winds.Natural Habitat and Geographic Range The Cyclura cornuta's geographic range is on the Hispaniola Island. The Hispaniola Island is found in the Caribbean Sea. Few iguanas go to the other ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Zoology
Chronology of the Haitian Revolution
1697- The Spaniards cede the western third of Hispaniola to the French crown at the treaty of Ryswick. It is now called Saint Domingue.1697-1791- ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > European History
Early history of the Bahamas.
ome of the recent guide books, that 40,000 souls were supposed to have been carried to the mines of Hispaniola by the Spaniards, is evidently overdrawn. Had the Bahamas ever been so thickly populated, ... rican, origin."Spanish slave traders later captured native Lucayan Indians to work in gold mines in Hispaniola, and within 25 years, all Lucayans perished. In 1647, a group of English and Bermudan rel ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > World History
Voodoo.
beginning of human civilizations. However it was born in Haiti during the European colonization of Hispaniola. The slaves practiced voodoo in secret, and it was a way for them to communicate with eac ... of the first places at which Columbus landed during his epic voyages of the 1490s was the island of Hispaniola. The island was then known as Santo Domingo, and is now divided between the countries of ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Paranormality & Spirituality
Types of Pirates: Buccaneer, Corsair, and Privateer.
men who deserted their crew. These pirates often hunted wild boar and oxen on the islands of Haiti, Hispaniola, and Dominican Republic. They smoked their hunt on a barbeque grill, also known as a bouc ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > European History
Cuba
Cuba is located in the West Indies and is largest of the four islands: Jamaica, Hispaniola and Puerto Rico. It is located 90 miles off of the Southern most tip of Florida and is ab ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
Comquering Of The Americas
Spain. In 1510, at age 36, he finally entered the priesthood. Ordained at Santo Domingo, capital of Hispaniola, he was the first priest ever to be consecrated in the colonies. The following year he ac ... e consecrated in the colonies. The following year he accompanied the expedition that set forth from Hispaniola to occupy Cuba. Once in Cuba he began to see the true nature of the events taking place i ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
Latin History
ent and subjugation of the indigenous inhabitants by the Europeans.This began with the discovery of Hispaniola and Cuba which led to the discovery of the Central America, Mexico, Peru, Middle America, ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > Central & Southamerican History
Latin American Chage
he underlying foundation of colonial ideals remains.The colonial period began with the discovery of Hispaniola by Christopher Columbus in 1492 and most Latin American countries gained their independen ...
Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays
Treasure Island
He was involved in a little skirmish with some of the pirates and in the process of taking over the Hispaniola, he was forced to kill Israel Hands because he was trying to kill him.Another event that ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science
European expoloration in 1400 and 1500s
ked for financing, they considered, then agreed to his terms. He discovered San Salvador, Cuba, and Hispaniola. Vespucci, de Balboa, Ponce de Leon, Cortes, and many others followed, claiming places su ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > World History
Christopher Columbus
eastern Caribbean, explored Puerto Rico, the southern coast of Cuba and Jamaica, and sailed around Hispaniola Columbus. On October 13, 1493 they stopped at Madeira and the Canary Islands. On this voy ... ber 13, 1493 they stopped at Madeira and the Canary Islands. On this voyage he formed the colony of Hispaniola.On Columbus's third voyage, from May 30, 1498 to October 1500, Columbus sailed farther so ...
Subjects: History Term Papers