HISTORY 2CS3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Bartolomé De Las Casas, Greater Antilles, Robert Paquette

• School: McMaster University
• Department: History
• Course: HISTORY 2CS3
• Professor: Juanita De Barros

Document Summary

Lecture 3: early spanish voyages to the caribbean. Learning outcomes: describe the social and political arrangements of the indigenous populations in, summarize key events of the early contacts between the spanish and the the caribbean before contact. Focus on caribbean in this lecture: arrival of the spanish in this region, contacts between spanish and indigenous. The indigenous population of the caribbean before the arrival of europeans in the late 15th century. Many scholars have drawn on the account of columbus" first voyages: some historians argued that de las casas probably wrote columbus" diary. Robert paquette (historian) observed, little is truly known about [the] identity and culture [of the indigenous population of the caribbean] . Recent scholarship has complicated this story between the arawak, or taino, and the carib. The european arrival resulted in a demographic catastrophe. The larger islands of the greater antilles were densely populated during the spanish arrival.