taino

So an interesting idea that came to my head was that the Taino not only get into regular contact with the Mesoamericans, but end up frequently raiding and plundering them, almost like a Viking analogue for the New World. Although some evidence of contact between Mesoamerica and the Caribbean has...

Here goes nothing. ***** The night was deep on Guanahani Island, and the world was asleep. The heavens were black, the stars and the half-moon’s steady light alone illuminating the rows of ripening maize and drying fish. Even the parrots were quiet. Only the whistles of the hutias and the...

Point of Divergence … When Columbus arrived in Jamaica in 1494, two years after his initial discovery of the New World, the island was inhabited by over 200 villages of the Taino and Arawak people. Upon his first visit, Columbus explored the coastal region of Juana before returning to Spain...