COLONIALISM AND IMPERIALISM
COLONIALISM AND ITS ANALYSIS
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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brutal and violent
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confusing but peaceful
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -They Did Their Best To Resist Those who refused were punished. In response, the Taínos attacked Spanish forts and killed Spanish soldiers. They hid food from the Spaniards. They continued to resist for almost a year.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Spaniards exploited the island’s gold mines and reduced the Taíno to slavery. Within twenty-five years of Columbus’ arrival in Haiti, most of the Taíno had died from enslavement, massacre, or disease. By 1514, only 32, 000 Taíno survived in Hispaniola. 1492-93.
Detailed explanation-3: -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.