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What distinguished the carribbean from the latin americas?
colonization patterns
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Isolated proximity?
explains position in the world
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what makes up the greater antilles?
cuba, hispanola, puerto rico, and jamaica
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geograph of greater antilles?
mountaineous interior
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greatest percent of population located where?
greater antilles
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what are the lesser antilles?
two arcs of small islands, volcanic activity due to diverging of two plates
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what countries make up the rimland?
belize, guinea, sirname, and french guinea
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geography of rimland?
forested
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causes of deforestation?
trees cut down for agriculture and construction, soils harvested many times
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effects of deforestation?
soil erosion, reliance on wood and charcoal for fuel, water and air polution
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when the migrant returns home with money
circular migration
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when the rest of the family begin to follow migrant
chain migration
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remittances?
money sent home to families from migrants
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carribbean diaspora?
the economic flight of carribbean peoples across the globe searching for better jobs, money, etc.
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the ability to straddle livelihoods and maintain relationships between home and host countries
transnational migration
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tendency of population patterns?
64% of population is urban
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what country has the greatet populaton density?`
puerto rico
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explain plantation america..
a cultural region on the coasts that were ruled by european elite who used african laborers to prouce agriculture for export
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depends on prouction of one main crop
monocrop production
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International monetary fund
loaning insititutions to developing countries with lending programs based on neoliberal market restructuring stipulations
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offshore banking?
islands that offer financial services that are typically confidential and tax exempt
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two islands that really benefitted from offshore banking?
cayman islands and bermuda
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runaway slaveds who establish communitie rich in african traditions
maroons
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maroon communities important because?
preserved african culture, helped slaves escape, fought for political independence
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creolization?
the blending of afcan and european cultural practices
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africans who intermingled with amerindians?
garifuna
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musical influences?
steel drum music in trinidad, bob maryley, etc.
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creole coast and connection to US gulf coast?
afican religious practices spread to americas with slaves (voodoo, santeria, obeah)
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haitian slave revolt?
independence didnt help prosper, high infant mortality rate, low life expectandy, flash floods
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British colonies today?
cayman islands, turks and caicos, anguilla, monserrat, bermuda
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french departments today?
martinique, guadeloupe, french guiana
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Federation of Dutch Antilles today?
curacao, bonaire, st. martin, saba, and st. eustatius
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what happend with the monroe doctrine?
wouldnt allow eurpean military movement in western hemisphere
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neocolonialism?
powrful countries directly or indirectly control smaller or weaker colonies
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Puerto Rico as a commonwealth?
us territory, citizenship but no voting rights, low education, high crime, free to move back and fourth
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cubas communist revolt?
fidel castro backed by USSR
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cuban missle crisis of 1962?
missles found on cuban soil, eventually removed
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