Kania Mayo
December 30, 2010
7a- History Project
The Bahamas
The Bahamas are groups of islands in the Caribbean Sea. The Bahamas has about 700 small islands. The Andros is the largest islands in the Bahamas. The Bahamas only has two seasons. They are summer and winter. The Bahamas is a tropical climate. The Bahamas is the place where birds live like flamingos. It also has palm trees. The Bahamas has islands around it. The Bahamas also has great beaches. 
The natives that lived in the Bahamas first were the Lucayans. They are of a group called the Arawak Indians. They came from South America. Some Spanish people came to the Bahamas and took some Lucayans and treated them like slaves and they were removed from the Bahamas by 1520. The Lucayans are warlike people. They grow cotton while they were at the Bahamas. They also catch fish so they can survive while they were on the Bahamas. The Lucayans travels in huge canoes that are made out of mahogany logs. They were the original inhabitants of the Bahamas before they arrived in Europe. "Lucayan" is an Anglicization of the Spanish Lucayos. The Taino Lukku-Cairi means "island men" or "people of the islands". Tainos began crossing in dugout canoes from Hispaniola and / or Cuba in 500 to 800. Christopher Columbus thought that the Lucayans resembled the Guanche of the Canary Islands. The Lucayans society was based on decent through the mother's line.
Lucayan man Lucayan village
The explorers that discovered the Bahamas was Christopher Columbus. He discovered the Bahamas in 1492. John Cabot and John Hawkins, British explorers also discovered the Bahamas during the 1500's. In 1670, the British ruled the Bahamas as a colony. Christopher Columbus saw the Lucayans when he came to the Bahamas. Ponce de León came to the Bahamas in 1513. He came to the Bahamas to look for the "Fountain of Youth".
Columbus and his fellow explorers Christopher Columbus
The explorers obtained the Bahamas by a religious war. They also obtained the Bahamas by trading wood for some provisions. They also had a slave trade. Christopher Columbus came from Spain then he went to San Salvador. After that in 1492 he came to the uninhabited land which is the Bahamas, and that is how he obtained the land. They also obtained the land by the tourist trade so the Bahamas would be more successful. Early as 300 to 400 AD, people from Cuba, went to the Islands of the Bahamas and relied on the ocean for food. Around 900 – 1500 AD, the Lucayan people settled in the Islands of the Bahamas. The Lucayans enjoyed their peaceful way of life in the Bahamas. The Bahamas had developed viable political, social and religious systems. Christopher Columbus made landfall in the New World on the island of San Salvador in 1492. He described the shallow sea as islands of the "baja mar". When Christopher Columbus arrived in the Bahamas there was about 40,000 Lucayans there. In 25 years, all of the Lucayans were wiped out due to the diseases, hardships and slavery they endured.
The resources that the Bahamas held would be that the blockade runners shipped some cotton to the Bahamas. They also have salt there aragonite, timber, (which is forestry and conservation lands,) arable lands, and wetlands. The Bahamas has freshwater resources, agriculture, mangrove forests, and fruit crops. The Bahamas also has citrus fruits. They also have vegetables for export. The Bahamas has markets with livestock. The Bahamas also depends on banking and tourism.
Tourism and financial services drives the Bahamian economy. About 110 U.S. affiliated business are operating in the Bahamas. The United States gave the Bahamas food and manufactured goods. In the Bahamas, the Bahamian people do not pay taxes. The Bahamas has 4.6 million tourists visit their country. The Bahamas has 85% tourist visit them from the United States. About 112,000 Bahamians were receiving employment benefits. Most government revenue is derived from high tariffs and important fees. The Bahamian Government signed an Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the European Union (EU) in December 2008.
bottlenose dolphin
Junkanoo celebration in Nassau
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