1450-1750+Latin+America+Theme+1

**Theme #1 - Interaction between Humans and Environment**
 * Demography and Disease
 * Smallpox reached the Caribbean region in 1518 and plummeted the population from about four million to a few thousand.
 * Migration
 * Tainos sailed from the Orinoco River valley in South America to the Caribbean Islands.
 * One million English, French, German, Dutch, Irish, and Scotish migrants crossed the Atlantic to displace native peoples.
 * The migration patterns of the natives were interrupted by the introduction of these colonists.
 * Patterns of Settlement
 * Technology
 * Native technology
 * canoes
 * hammocks
 * bow and arrow
 * slings
 * forts were built
 * opened mines
 * New technologies from Europe
 * Weapons
 * guns
 * iron swords
 * horses
 * metal tools
 * glass
 * dogs