SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
RISE OF THE SLAVE TRADE BLACK HISTORY IN COLONIAL AMERICA
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Aztecs
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Taino
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Incas
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Africans
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Detailed explanation-1: -European depiction of Lucayan Taínos, who inhabited what is now known as the Bahamas and Turks and Caicos Islands when Columbus arrived in 1492.
Detailed explanation-2: -When Christopher Columbus arrived on the Bahamian Island of Guanahani (San Salvador) in 1492, he encountered the Taíno people, whom he described in letters as “naked as the day they were born.” The Taíno had complex hierarchical religious, political, and social systems.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Taino, an Arawak subgroup, were the first native peoples encountered by Christopher Columbus on Hispaniola.
Detailed explanation-4: -On October 12, 1492, Italian explorer Christopher Columbus made landfall in what is now the Bahamas. Columbus and his ships landed on an island that the native Lucayan people called Guanahani. Columbus renamed it San Salvador.