Chapter 6 – Lesson 2Influences of the Past

Mulatto

A person with African and European background

NATIVE GROUPS OF THE CARIBBEAN

Arawaks – lived in the Greater Antilles

Caribs – lived in the Lesser AntillesCiboneys – the first group on the

islands

Commercial Farming

A kind of agriculture in which crops are raised for sale

The most important crop that the Spanish colonists grew was sugar.

Sugarcane

abolish

To end (slavery)

Indentured servant

A person who agrees to work for a certain period of time, often in exchange for travel expenses.

Columbian exchange

The movement of people, animals, plants, diseases, and ideas between Europe and the Americans in the 1400’s and 1500’s.

Columbian Exchange

People arrived in Central America from: Africa Spain Asia

These people brought: A variety of foods to Central America like

cabbage, cauliflower, lettuce, melons, bananas, rice

Crops like potatoes and maize (corn). Livestock like cattle, pigs, and horses.

Columbian Exchange…

legacy

Anything handed down from an ancestor

Europe – melons, lettuce, onionsSpanish – Bananas, rice, yams