Influences of the Past

 A person with African and European background

 Arawaks – lived in the Greater Antilles  Caribs – lived in the Lesser Antilles  Ciboneys – the first group on the islands

 A kind of agriculture in which crops are raised for sale  The most important crop that the Spanish colonists grew was sugar.  Sugarcane

 To end (slavery)

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

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

 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.

 Anything handed down from an ancestor  Europe – melons, lettuce, onions  Spanish – Bananas, rice, yams