Africans
Don Juan de Esquivel
Columbus
The ships
Arawak
Who waited at St. Ann's Bay for help to arrive from Cuba when his ships became unserviceable?
Death from disease
Subjugated Arawak population
Base called Nueva Sevilla
Waiting in harbor
Oppression
Pig breeding
The Europeans introduced slavery and disease. Many of the Arawak committed suicide. Their population decreased
Suicide
In what ways was the coming of the Europeans to Jamaica bad for the Arawak people?
Hammock
Iguana
Pigs
Disease
They ate pig, and iguana and invented the hammock
Sugar cane
Import slaves
Name some things the Arawak ate and invented.
They arrived at the beginning of the eighth century
1505
1534
Support
Eighth century
Beginning of the eighth century
1517
Government
When did the Arawak people first arrive in Jamaica?
Jamaica
Columbus
AmerIndian
Spanish
The Arawak
Settlers
Who called Jamaica "Xaymaca" ("land of wood and water")?
717
1534
About 7 centuries
7177
1517
800
Approximately how many years did the AmerIndians live in Jamaica before the Spanish imported slaves from Africa?
Mosquito
Iguana
Unhealthy
Pig
What meat was consumed by both the Arawak and the European settlers of Jamaica?
Nueva Sevilla
South America
Esquivel
Jamaica
On what island were Arawak pottery shards found?
Their extreme import by Spaniards from Africa causes it
Pig breeding and sugarcane, waited in the harbor
Disease and suicide, brought slaves from Africa
Farming and weaving, returned to Villa de la Vega
Many Arawak died while being oppressed by the Spanish and when their were not enough of them to be slaves, the Spaniards imported slaves from Africa
Explain the decline in number of the Arawak and Spain's response to this decline.
No
Yes
Settlement
Cuba
Was the arrival of the Europeans a positive development for the Arawaks?
Realize
Oppression
Disease
Breeding
Mosquitoes
Oppression by the Spanish, European diseases and suicide
Suicide
Farming
What are three causes of the Arawak's population decline?
Sugar cane and other crops
Spanish Town
Pigs
Thatching
Applied for a U.S
Sugar cane and other crops that required large numbers of laborers
What crops would the Spanish force the people they took from Africa to work?
917
8 centuries
1501
About 6 centuries
About 800
594
For approximately how many years were the Arawak on Jamaica before the arrival of the Europeans?
The AmerIndians, including the Arawak people
Slaves
AmerIndian
Spanish
Arawak
Settlers
Which group of people were highly skilled at weaving and thatching?
200 Arawak sites
One hundred thousand
1494
1517
100,000
200
How many AmerIndians were said to be living in the land of "land of wood and water" by the time Columbus arrived?
Laborers
They excelled at thatching, weaving, and farming, and they left some paintings
Sugar cane farming
Weaving
Thatching
What did the Arawak excel at prior to the coming of the Europeans?
No, they moved from Nueva Sevilla to Villa de la Vega due to mosquitoes and unhealthy conditions
No
Yes
Moved to Villa de la Vega
Settled in St. Ann's Bay
After Esquival arrived, did the Spanish remain in Nueva Sevilla?
Slash-and-burn
Pigs
Thatching
Sugar cane
What labor intensive crop did the Spanish import slaves to grow?
Pig breeding
Suicide
Many of them committed suicide rather than live under the Spanish rule
Farming
Sugar cane
The Arawak immediately began subjugating the Spanish population
What was the response to Spanish oppression by a large number of Arawak people?
The earliest signs of people on Jamaica are the remains of the Arawak, an AmerIndian society that originated on the north coast of South America. Arawak peoples migrated to various Caribbean islands, arriving in Jamaica by the beginning of the eighth century. They were peaceful and lived by "slash-and-burn" farming. For meat, they bred pigs and ate iguana, both native to the island. They were highly skilled in such manual activities as thatching and weaving. In fact, the hammock was an AmerIndian invention that remains with us today; it is an object which, more than any other, evokes an image of a warm sunny day on a tropical isle. The Arawak left a legacy of paintings in places such as Runaway Caves near Discovery Bay, and shards of pottery found at their settlements near Nueva Sevilla and Spanish Town have added a little to our knowledge about them. Over 200 Arawak sites have been identified, and it is said that when the Spanish arrived in Jamaica there were approximately 100,000 Arawak living on the island. They called Jamaica "Xaymaca" ("land of wood and water"). Columbus and the Arrival of Europeans Columbus first arrived in Jamaica on 5 May 1494 at Discovery Bay, where there is now a small park in his honor. He stayed for only a few days but returned in 1502, landing here when the ships of his fleet became unserviceable; he waited at St. Ann's Bay for help to arrive from Cuba. After the death of Columbus in 1505, Jamaica became the property of his son Diego, who dispatched Don Juan de Esquivel to the island as Governor. Esquivel arrived in 1510 and created a base called Nueva Sevilla near St. Ann's Bay, from which he hoped to colonize the rest of the island. The Spanish immediately began subjugating the Arawak population, many of whom died under the yoke of oppression and of diseases carried by the Europeans. A number of them committed suicide rather than live the life created for them by the Spanish. The site of Nueva Sevilla proved to be unhealthy and mosquito-ridden, and in 1534 the Spanish founded Villa de la Vega, today known as Spanish Town. Pig breeding was the main occupation of these early settlers, but they also planted sugar cane and other crops that required large numbers of laborers. The number of Arawak had already fallen dramatically, so the Spanish began to import slaves from Africa to work the land; the first Africans arrived in 1517. 