Test 1 Flashcards
Caro Largo
Tourists
Cayo Coco
Tourists
Harbors:
Havana, Santiago, Cienfuegos, Guantanamo, Mariel
Where’s El Morro?
Havana
Tallest mountain
Pico Tourquino
Sierra Maestra
Mountains where Fidel hid
Economic value in mountains?
Mining: manganese, iron, nickel, copper
Viñales
Unique mountains, almost plateaus, tourism bc of geography. Better life for people who live here
Sierra de Organos
Mogotes… Palenques
Closest neighbor?
Haiti
Arawak groups?
Ciboney, Taíno, Caribs
First group to occupy Cuba? Social structure? Diet?
Guanahatabey, egalitarian, mollusks & fruits, etc.
Second group to occupy Cuba? Social structure?
Ciboney, semi-sedentary
Most sophisticated pre Colombian group to occupy Cuba? Social Structure
Taíno, have some class system: chief, nobles, priests, hunters/warriors maybe?
- What killed more than 50% of the Indian groups?
2. What killed less than half?
- War, suicide, enslavement
2. Disease
Taíno: Who became heir of the Chief?
Sister’s oldest son
Montones
Taíno, little mounds with spaces in between which allows water to auto irrigate, aeration for soil
Shamans?
Religious healing… Trances, dreams, vomiting
Cohoba? Cohiba?
Hallucinatory drug in seeds which are crushed and snorted, cohiba is that mixed with tobacco
Zemis
Objects with spirits inside of them
Shows social status in Taíno through?
Belts
Game played?
Batu
Cuba’s first national hero?
Where is he from?
Hatuey, Hispaniola
Anacoana
Woman version of Hatuey
Another Indian rebel?
Guamá
1st capital
2nd capital
3rd capital
Baracoa
Santiago
Havana
Parallels between Cuba and LATAM
Encomiendas, forced labor, destruction of Indian population, corrupt bureaucracy, Catholic Church, little economic development (at first)
First three biggest products of Cuba
Cattle
Tobacco
Sugar
Difference between pirates and privateers?
Pirates: plunder
Privateers: plunder and attack
Examples of Pirates (3)
Captain Morgan, Sir Francis Drake, Piet Heyn
Island of Youth formerly called?
Island of Pines