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Sugar cane cutters in Jamaica, 1880. In the mid-17th century, sugarcane had been brought into the English West Indies by the Dutch, [35] [36] [37] from Brazil. Upon landing in Jamaica and other islands, they quickly urged local growers to change their main crops from cotton and tobacco to sugar cane. With depressed prices of cotton and tobacco ...
16th c. ← Establishments in Jamaica in the 17th century → 18th c. 1600s establishments in Jamaica — ...
European colonies in the 18th-century Caribbean. In the mid-17th century, sugarcane was introduced to the British West Indies by the Dutch, [29] [30] [31] from Brazil. Upon landing in Jamaica and other islands, they quickly urged local growers to change their main crops from cotton and tobacco to sugarcane. With depressed prices of cotton and ...
17th-century establishments in Jamaica (1 C, 1 P) 0–9. 1650s in Jamaica (3 C) 1660s in Jamaica (3 C) P. 17th-century Jamaican people (1 C, 29 P) S. 17th century in ...
British West Indies in 1900 BWI in red and pink (blue islands are other territories with English as an official language). The British West Indies (BWI) were the territories in the West Indies under British rule, including Anguilla, the Cayman Islands, the Turks and Caicos Islands, Montserrat, the British Virgin Islands, Bermuda, Antigua and Barbuda, the Bahamas, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada ...
Years of the 17th century in Jamaica. ← 16th century | 18th century ...
The Invasion of Jamaica took place in May 1655, during the 1654 to 1660 Anglo-Spanish War, when an English expeditionary force captured Spanish Jamaica. It was part of an ambitious plan by Oliver Cromwell to acquire new colonies in the Americas, known as the Western Design .
However, the first settlers most likely arrived in Trinidad when it was still attached to South America by land bridges. [2] It was not until about 7000/6000 BCE, during the early Holocene that Trinidad became an island rather than part of the mainland due to a significant jump in sea level by about 60 m., which may be attributable to climate ...