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FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE

CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Historians estimate there were one to three million Tainos living in the Caribbean when Columbus arrived. By 100 years later, approximately how many were left?
A
200
B
200, 000
C
2, 000, 000
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -In the Bahamas, the Taíno are 125, 000 strong in 1492 when they encounter the crew and the Italian captain of three Spanish ships. Christopher Columbus seeks a shorter sea route to India to help Spain get a foothold in the profitable spice trade.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Taínos were present throughout the Caribbean islands from approximately 1200 to 1500 A.D., and when Christopher Columbus arrived in the region, the Taínos were the indigenous group he encountered.

Detailed explanation-3: -Discovery. Historians have estimated that the pre-Columbian inhabitants of the West Indies numbered approximately six million in 1492. With Columbus’s arrival, the Caribbean Sea was transformed into a Spanish lake.

Detailed explanation-4: -Christopher Columbus, who needs to demonstrate the wealth of the New World after finding no gold, loads his ship with enslaved Taíno people. During the next four decades, slavery contributes to the deaths of 7 million Taíno. By 1535, the Taíno culture on Hispaniola is gone.

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