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Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico. Cultural History and Colonialism. Pre-Columbus Era. Ortoiroid Culture. 2,000-3,000 BC Orinoco Valley in South America Avid hunters and fisherman. Rogozinsky , Jan: A Brief History of the Caribbean . Plume, 1999. ISBN 0-452-28193-8. Pre-Columbus Era Continued.

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Puerto Rico

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  1. Puerto Rico Cultural History and Colonialism

  2. Pre-Columbus Era Ortoiroid Culture • 2,000-3,000 BC • Orinoco Valley in South America • Avid hunters and fisherman Rogozinsky, Jan: A Brief History of the Caribbean. Plume, 1999. ISBN 0-452-28193-8

  3. Pre-Columbus Era Continued Saladoid Culture • 430-250 BC • Native to Saladero in Venezuela • Pottery style helps identify Irving Rouse (1992). The Tainos: Rise and Decline of the people who greeted Columbus. Yale University Press. ISBN 0300056966.

  4. Pre-Columbus Era Continued Taino Culture • 1,000 AD – post Columbus era • 30,000 – 60,000 inhabited the island • Mainly consumed small mammals

  5. Pre-Columbus Era Continued Taino Culture • Two classes: Naborias~ Natainos • Practiced polygamy • Worshipped more than one god "Caciques, nobles and their regalia". elmuseo.org. Archived from the original on 2006-10-09. http://web.archive.org/web/20061009090513/http://elmuseo.org/taino/caciques.html.

  6. Pre-Columbus Era Continued Taino Culture • Decreased due to Spaniards • Were deemed gentle in nature • Culture is embedded in Puerto Rico today Kirkpatrick Sale, "The Conquest of Paradise",p100, ISBN 0-333-57479-6

  7. Spanish Rule (1493-1898) Colonization • 1509 – Caparra is abandoned • Enslavement of Tainos • Roman Catholic Church tries to expand its infuence • Tri –Racial culture is formed "La tragédie des Taïnos", in L'Histoire n°322, July–August 2007, p.16

  8. Spanish Rule (1493-1898) Continued European Threats • French sack San Germain in 1528,1538, and 1554 • British try to loot San Juan 1595 • Dutch attack San Juan and set it ablaze in 1625 "Historiamilitar de Puerto Rico"; by Hector Andres Negroni (Author); Publisher: SociedadEstatalQuintoCentenario (199

  9. United States Rule (1898-present) Spanish-American War Treaty of Paris Military control Negroni, Héctor Andrés (1992) (in Spanish). Historiamilitar de Puerto Rico. SociedadEstatalQuintoCentenario. ISBN8478441387

  10. United States Rule (1898-present) Continued Colonization U.S. postal service Highways/bridges Health system Sparked beginnings of political parties

  11. United States Rule (1898-present) Continued Major Acts Foraker act of 1900 Jones act of 1917 Commonwealth establishment "Strategy as Politics'; by: Jorge Rodriguez Beruff; Publisher: La Editorial; Universidad de Puerto Rico; page 27; ISBN 978-0-8477-0160-5

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