History of the Bahamas
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 24 ก.ย. 2024
- The earliest arrival of people in the islands now known as The Bahamas was in the first millennium AD. The first inhabitants of the islands were the Lucayans, an Arawakan-speaking Taino people, who arrived between about 500 and 800 AD from other islands of the Caribbean.
Recorded history began on 12 October 1492, when Christopher Columbus landed on the island of Guanahani, which he renamed San Salvador Island, on his first voyage to the New World. The earliest permanent European settlement was in 1648 on Eleuthera. During the 18th century slave trade, many Africans were brought to the Bahamas as slaves to work unpaid. Their descendants now constitute 85% of the Bahamian population. The Bahamas gained independence from the United Kingdom on July 10, 1973.
Early history
Sometime between 500 and 800 AD, Taínos began crossing in dugout canoes from Hispaniola and/or Cuba to the Bahamas. Suggested routes for the earliest migrations have been from Hispaniola to the Caicos Islands, from Hispaniola or eastern Cuba to Great Inagua Island, and from central Cuba to Long Island . William Keegan argues that the most likely route was from Hispaniola or Cuba to Great Inagua. Granberry and Vescelius argue for two migrations, from Hispaniola to the Turks and Caicos Islands, and from Cuba to Great Inagua.
From the initial colonization, the Lucayan expanded throughout the Bahamas in some 800 years , growing to a population of about 40,000. Population density at the time of first European contact was highest in the south-central area of the Bahamas, declining towards the north, reflecting the migration pattern and progressively shorter time of occupation of the northern islands. Known Lucayan settlement sites are confined to the nineteen largest islands in the archipelago, or to smaller cays located less than one km. from those islands. Population density in the southernmost Bahamas remained lower, probably due to the drier climate there .
We're did the people come from that in the Bahamas it seems like know one can tell
this is everything that wikapedia says
We gain partial independence, the Bahamas is not independent but have a form of self governance. We legit celebrate independence day in vain each year, the high court is still Britain Privy Council. But great documentary, just slip by to state that.
yh thanks
Thanks for the information.
I'm a Bahamian and oh hell no these comments need God
Nah these colonizers thought we needed god pls no more
You are lucayan? If not you are African or European not Bahamian sorry
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Odd. A black person believing in the laws and morals of Christianity is like a Jew believing in the laws and morals of POS Nazis.
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I'm Bahamas person
Alexa- what are the Bahamas?
A group of islands in the Caribbean.
Wtf is up with all these text to speech videos on the Bahamas?
Is there archaeological evidence of their existence? (Lucayans, an Arawakan-speaking Taino people)
Yes there is
Yes, there is. Why you ask?
Definitely
They were guanches from North Africa dont belive the white man lies
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This historical record is inaccurate, the Africans that came over during slavery do not make up 85% of the Bahamas population. Saying Africans is wrong mostly because Bahamians are a mixture of Native Americans and Gullah Geechee, also Bermudians who made up the majority of the population. African is not accurate. Well the video was Accurate, but that line near the beginning was inaccurate.
So they just want to talk about white people why my people not mentioned in this story
They don’t want to talk about it they want to rewrite history
Spanish rule
This most hateful days😂😅😮❤
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Your a meany I love the Bahamas and I love it