By Lisa Pierce Flores
Drawing on dramatic contemporary advancements in learn, The heritage of Puerto Rico deals the main updated and completely learned exploration of the island's prior for college students, tourists, and common readers alike. The historical past of Puerto Rico levels from the earliest indigenous settlements to the reign of the Taino, from the centuries lower than Spanish regulate via greater than a hundred years of existence lower than the U.S. flag. Insightful and authoritative, the e-book is helping readers comprehend the background in the back of Puerto Rico's advanced modern political prestige, its exact dating with the us, and the present efforts of Puerto Ricans to reclaim their indigenous and African background, leverage their bilingual tradition for monetary achieve, and have a good time their cultural and inventive achievements.
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The Taı´no had no immunity to many European ailments, particularly small pox and influenza. Escaped Carib slaves and Taı´no workers who were not killed in battle or by disease often committed suicide on returning home to find that their families had died of yet another rampant difficulty facing the Taı´no, starvation. During the first few decades after 1493, many Taı´nos who could not escape the encomiendo and who could not bear living as slaves committed suicide by hanging or by drinking unprocessed poisonous cassava juice.
By 1518, the Spanish were alarmed at the rate at which the Taı´no population was dwindling and many colonial leaders tried to establish some autonomy for the Taı´no in hopes of restoring their spirits and their numbers. It was too little, too late. The population continued to decline. In 1542, Spain freed the slaves of indigenous ancestry, including the Taı´no and Carib, but by then many had died and many of those remaining had become assimilated into the Spanish colonial culture. The Taı´no civilization ceased to exist.
These first Puerto Ricans settled in the island’s mangrove swamps, which provided abundant sources of food and shelter from the sea. It seems likely that a second group of people, traveling east from the Yucatan, disembarked first in Cuba, then sent members of its clan to settle on the northern end of Puerto Rico. Both groups, the South American arrivals in the south and the Mesoamerican settlers to the north, lived in caves near mangroves. Historians refer to both of these groups as ‘‘archaic,’’ ‘‘aceramic,’’ or ‘‘pre-ceramic,’’ all terms that simply mean that they did not produce ceramic objects.