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Transcript: Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (August 13, 1926 – November 25, 2016) was a Cuban politician and revolutionary who governed the Republic of Cuba as Prime Minister from 1959 to 1976 and then as President from 1976 to 2008. Slave trade Indigenous The Haiti earthquake of 2010 was a catastrophic magnitude 7.0 MW earthquake with its epicenter located about 25 kilometers west-southwest of the city of Port-au-Prince, the capital of the Caribbean state of Haiti. Lesser Antilles Bob Marley was born on February 6, 1945, in St. Ann Parish, Jamaica. In 1963, Marley and his friends formed the Wailing Wailers. The Wailers' big break came in 1972, when they landed a contract with Island Records. Marley went on to sell more than 20 million records throughout his career, making him the first international superstar to emerge from the so-called Third World. He died in Miami, Florida, on May 11, 1981 The word Antilles originated in the period before the European conquest of the New World - Europeans used the term Antilia as one of the mysterious lands featured on medieval charts In the 20th century, large-scale sugar production using wage labour continued in many parts of the region. VIP Christopher Columbus discovered the chili during his explorations in the Caribbean islands and took them to Europe, where they were used as a substitute for black pepper, which was very expensive at that time since it had to be imported from Asia. Piracy Sugar Plantations The number of victims was estimated at 24 February 2010 at 222,517. Usain Bolt Ernesto "Che" Guevar, also known as El Che, was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary. A major figure of the Cuban Revolution, his stylized visage has become an ubiquitous countercultural symbol of rebellion and global insignia in popular culture. Guevara left Cuba in 1965 to foment revolution abroad, first unsuccessfully in Congo-Kinshasa and later in Bolivia, where he was captured by CIA-assisted Bolivian forces and summarily executed. Che Guevara He was looking for fresh water, he found many pineapple. Sugar was the most important crop throughout the Caribbean, although other crops such as coffee, indigo, and rice were also grown. Usain St Leo Bolt, ( born 21 August 1986) is a Jamaican sprinter. Regarded as the fastest human ever timed, he is the first man to hold both the 100 metres and 200 metres world records since fully automatic time became mandatory. He also holds the world record as a part of the 4 × 100 metres relay. He is the reigning World and Olympic champion in these three events. Due to his unprecedented dominance and achievements in the athletic field, he is widely considered the greatest sprinter of all time. The Lesser Antilles (also known as the Caribbees) are a group of islands in the Caribbean Sea. Most form a long, partly volcanic island arc between the Greater Antilles to the north-west and the continent of South America. Hurricane Matthew The Bahamas became a Crown colony in 1718, when the British clamped down on piracy. The Taino were the first Amerindian population to populate the Caribbean. Many historians believe that the disappearance of this people has taken place because of the genocide committed by Europeans during their conquest and Infectious Diseases arrived with the colonizers. The Greater Antilles is a grouping of the larger islands in the Caribbean Sea Slavery in the Bahamas was abolished in 1834. Today the descendants of slaves and free Africans make up nearly 90% of the population The Lesser Antilles more or less coincide with the outer edge of the Caribbean Plate. Many of the islands were formed as a result of the subduction of oceanic crust of the South American Plate under the Caribbean Plate in the Lesser Antilles subduction zone. The Bahamas were the site of Columbus' first landfall in the New World in 1492. The Atlantic slave trade or transatlantic slave trade took place across the Atlantic Ocean from the 15th through 19th centuries. Christopher Columbus Geography The Bahamas became an independent Commonwealth realm in 1973 Fra Bartolomeo de Las Casas in his book Historia General de las Indias reports that in the year 1508 that left about 60,000 Taino island of Hispaniola. In 1531 the exploitation and disease had reduced the number to 600. The era of piracy in the Caribbean began in the 1500s and died out in the 1830s after the navies of the nations of Western Europe and North America with colonies in the Caribbean began combating pirates. Piracy flourished in the Caribbean because of the existence of pirate seaports such as Port Royal in Jamaica,Tortuga in Haiti, and Nassau in the Bahamas. Earthquake Haiti Carribean Tasted them, he realized that they were excellent, immediately gave the name to the fruit, piña calling the Indies. Fidel Castro For about 100 years, Barbados remained the richest of all the European colonies in the Caribbean. The South Atlantic and Caribbean economic system centered on producing commodity crops, making goods and clothing to sell
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