Midterm 1 Terms

Question 1

Multidisciplinary/interdisciplinary

Answer 1

Bringing together contrasting research methodologies, like qualitative and quantitative approaches from the social sciences and the natural sciences with analytical and interpretative approaches from the humanities might yield better answers to solving major issues (disease, the environment, global migration, etc.)

Question 2

Greater and Lesser Antilles,

Answer 2

Greater - Cuba Jamaica Haiti Puerto Rico DR
Lesser Antilles - Antigua Guadeloupe Martinique

Question 3

Continental Enclaves

Answer 3

Belize, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana

Question 4

Circum-Caribbean

Answer 4

Coasts of Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica,
Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Mexico,Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Mexico,
Southern United States

Question 5

Tainos, Caribs -

Answer 5

Both Native Americans, Caribs were known as barbaric

Question 6

Cacique

Answer 6

Chief of Tainos

Question 7

Conuco

Answer 7

Vegetable garden

Question 8

Borinquen, Cubanacán, Ayiti, Quisqueya

Answer 8

Boriqquen- Puerto Rican

Cubancan - Cuban

Ayiti - Haiti

Quisqueya - DR and Haiti

Question 9

Christopher Columbus

Answer 9

Sailed the ocean blue 1492, explorer from Italy sent by Spain

Question 10

Columbian Exchange

Answer 10

The process by which commodities, people, and diseases crossed the Atlantic

Question 11

Bartolomé de Las Casas

Answer 11

Dominican Friar from 14814 to 1556 who spoke out against colonialism and killing Indigenous people

Question 12

Black Legend

Answer 12

The idea that the Spanish were colonizers and killed a lot of Native life

Question 13

European conquest

Answer 13

“More than an encounter, it
was a cultural and biological
erasure, despite vestiges of
the native population that
remained through cultural
and biological hybridization
(mestizaje), a few words,
toponyms, foods, and crops”
(FM 94).

Question 14

European Colonialism

Answer 14

Europeans conquered a lot of native lands

Question 15

Encomienda

Answer 15

System where Spanish crown granted land and people to different Spanish lords in the colonies

Question 16

Creole

Answer 16

In the broadest sense, means of the new world. Something or someone orginating in = Europe (or Africa) and reproducing itself in the New World.

Linguistic meaning: languages (spoken vernaculars) that emerged from mixing cultural influences

Question 17

Sankofa

Answer 17

It is a bird that represents going back to the past and also freedom

Question 18

African Slavery

Answer 18

What was new about African
slavery?
-Legal ownership and exploitation of one human
being by another
1. Forced migration between continents
2. Hereditary status
3. Exclusive emphasis on agricultural labor
4. Large scale
5. Race

Question 19

Middle passage

Answer 19

Slaves were packed on a Ship unable to move

Question 20

Triangular Trade

Answer 20

Cotton and sugar back to the Old World and gold to Africa and then to the Americas

Question 21

Sugar Plantation

Answer 21

hard process with the planters at the top, no social mobility or escapping

Question 22

Francisco Manzano

Answer 22

his autobiography is the only existing narrative account ofonly existing narrative account of
slavery in Spanish America.

Question 23

Esteban Montejo

Answer 23

his biography is based
on interviews he gave inon interviews he gave in 1963, at the1963, at the
age of 105

Question 24

Asian indentured labor

Answer 24

Chinese and Indian workers came to Guyana and Trinidad and were known as coolies

Question 25

Maroons

Answer 25

escaped and freed slaves who formed their own communities in places like Palenques and Quilombos Puerto Rico and Brazil

Question 26

Foodways

Answer 26

are the cultural, social, and economic practices
relating to the production and consumption of food. More
specifically, they are the eating habits and culinary practices
of
people, region, or historical period.

Question 27

Petit Marronage

Answer 27

Temporary Absences
-visit relatives
-free black urban communities
Term: runaway slave
Maroon

Question 28

Gran Marronage

Answer 28

Run away Permanently and formed communities in secluded settlements

Question 29

Cudjoe (kojo)/ west

Answer 29

Maroon Born creole
insisted that English spoken
Hid in deep canyons and limestone sinkholes

Question 30

NANNY / EAST

Answer 30

-Obeah
_said to be able to attract and dcatch bullest
hid in the blue mountains
federation of individual communities
Maroons are national heroes

Question 31

Haitian Revolution

Answer 31

Known to be a non -event but was very influential, caused the fall of the French stronghold in the West

Question 32

Boukman, Toussaint L’Ouverture, Dessalines, Henri Christophe

Answer 32

Influential Haitian leaders who led the revolution

Question 33

historiography

Answer 33

Historiography is the study of the history and methodology of history as a discipline. Briefly, it is the history of history. When you study historiography, you are not studying the past directly

Question 34

Primary Source

Answer 34

First hand accounts of a topic