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Greater Antilles
- -Carribean
- -Cuba,
- -Jamaica,
- -Hispaniola,
- -Puerto Rico
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Lesser Antilles (smaller)
- -Arawak
- -Virgin Islands
- -Dominica
- -Guadeloupe
- -Grenada
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What is a stick chart and where was it used?
- -Charts that mapped ocean swells
- -used in marshall islands to navigate the Pacific Ocean
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Three types of stick charts
- 1. rebbelib (Large chart)
- 2. meddo (high resolution, zoom in of one image, detailed)
- 3. mattang (summary of wave patterns)
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Melanesia
- -dark skin,
- -diverse, 1/5 of all languages
- -centered on New Guinea
- -Colonized 50,000 to 30,000 years ago
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Micronesia
- -small volcanic islands.
- -271 square miles, 607 islands
- -N. Marinaras, Guam, Marshall Islands
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Polynesia
-Hawaii, South Pacific, New Zealand
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polynesia colonized when and by who
- -colonized by china, taiwan and the philippines
- -easter island: 400AD
- -Tahiti: 700 AD
- -Hawaii: 800 AD
- -New Zealand: 1400 AD
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Caribbean colonization
- -was colonized by native american indians
- -then the spanish came in
- -then the dutch and french
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Zones of the tropics
- 1. Frigid
- 2. Temperate
- 3. Torrid
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Paleotropics
- -africa,
- -india,
- -southeast asia,
- -indonesia
- -australia
- -oceania
- -saudi arabia
- -thailand
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Neotropics
- -caribbean,
- -central and south america
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Polynesian colonization - how did they do it (3)
- 1) used catamarans (more stable)
- 2) navigation- stars
- 3)find islands
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