| When asked in history lessons at school
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| | original inhabitants so that it's almost
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| what made the year 1492 so special,
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| | impossible to classify them. Maybe they
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| almost every student knows the answer.
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| | came originally from what is known today
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| It was the year that Christopher Columbus
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| | as Florida. What is known is that they
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| discovered America. The word America has
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| | were not cannibals and seemed to have
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| different connotations in Europe and in
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| | been very mild-mannered.The first
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| America itself. When people in Europe
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| | foreigners to settle in the Bahamas were
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| talk about America they almost invariably
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| | a group of religious refugees from
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| refer to The United States of America,
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| | England . They were Eleutheran
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| with Washington, D.C. as its capital.
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| | Adventurers, persecuted by their local
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| In Europe people are not even aware of
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| | church and they gave Eleuthera island its
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| the geographical term North America,
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| | name. After other groups of settlers
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| which includes Canada, the U.S. and
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| | from different parts of the world
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| Mexico. So when asked about Christopher
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| | established their own settlements with
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| Columbus and his discovery they believe
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| | their own governments in The Bahamas the
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| that he landed somewhere near Boston.In
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| | islands became a British Crown Colony.The
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| fact the place where Columbus first
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| | ongoing animosity and sometimes outright
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| arrived in the Western Hemisphere was The
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| | war between Spain and Great Britain gave
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| Bahamas. The Bahamas are a group of
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| | adventurers, many of them English and
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| islands and it was on one of them, San
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| | French, the opportunity to use the
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| Salvador, where Christopher Columbus set
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| | islands as their base from which to
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| foot on October 12th , 1492.The Bahamas
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| | attack Spanish ships that went to or came
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| themselves were never of much interest to
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| | from the New World. It was the natural
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| the Spanish and they never really settled
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| | geological formations of the islands and
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| there. What they did do though was turn
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| | their coasts that gave those pirates a
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| all the local residents into slaves and
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| | superb advantage and provided them with a
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| send them to the mines of San Domingo.
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| | perfect hiding place.When in 1697 Europe
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| Basically the whole population just
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| | arrived at peace through the treaty of
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| disappeared within a very short time.But
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| | Riswick England stopped protecting the
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| it seems that not very many people were
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| | islands. The Bahamas, now being on their
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| living in the Bahamas, because after
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| | own and without any official alliances,
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| their abduction and forced slavery there
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| | soon turned into a haven for pirates who
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| was hardly any evidence of civilization
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| | fought all nations and attacked all ships
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| like abandoned houses, temples and ruins
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| | independent of their origin. Lawlessness
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| left. Nor was there much evidence of
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| | reigned and The Bahamas became a by-word
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| extensive agriculture or soil
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| | for crime at that time.This state of
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| cultivation. Nowadays there are many
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| | affairs could obviously not continue
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| fruit trees on the islands, but their
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| | indefinitely and in 1718 England assumed
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| introduction through the Spanish can be
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| | responsibility again for the islands and
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| traced back and there are absolutely no
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| | began to exterminate all pirates. Soon
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| animals that could serve as food for
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| | law and order were established again and
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| human consumption. The aboriginals that
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| | the British Crown was again in possession
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| used to live there were evidently
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| | of the islands until 1973, when The
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| fishermen or lived on wild fruit and
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| | Bahamas gained full independence within
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| corn.Very little is known about the
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| | the Commonwealth of Nations.
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