Caribbean Music by Ocelis Moxey

 Spanish Colonization With the arrival of Europeans in the Caribbean, a world history of great importance for both the Caribbean and Europe begins. One of the great colonial systems, the Spanish, which was the oldest and most extensive; was implanted as a result of the voyages of Christopher Columbus at the beginning of the 16th century. In this century, the Spanish occupied the Greater Antilles Jamaica Hispaniola Cuba Puerto Rico In the seventeenth century the other European powers, England occupied Jamaica and France occupied the western part of Hispaniola, remaining under Spanish domination: Cuba Puerto Rico Dominican Republic  (eastern part of Hispaniola) The Spanish conquistadors plundered the Indian populations of these countries and forced them to work as enslaved people, but from that moment begins the mixture of indigenous and Spanish cultures. After nearly exterminating the Indians, the Spanish brought slaves from Africa to do the jobs the Indians had done. By bringi...

 Continuing with the Creolization of the Caribbean islands, next we will learn a little about the Dutch islands of the Caribbean, this island has the official language Dutch. These islands conform to two groups: The Dutch Windward Island  is also called " SSS " due to the name of the islands that compose it,  S aba,  S int Eustatius  The southern part of the island of Saint Martin called S int Maarten The predominant language is English. The Dutch Leeward Islands also called " ABC " for the islands of: A ruba,  B onaire,  C uraçao The predominant language is Papiamento, a creole language formed by the mix of the Spanish language, words of Portuguese origin, the indigenous Arawak language, and African languages. The Dutch islands have a great cultural mixture due to the relationship they had with the European powers during the colonization since they had a mixture with Spain, France, England, and Holland (colonizers) and with the African slaves and the...