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EXISTING SYLLABUS PROPOSED SYLLABUS
(Approved by SUBSEC in April 2016) (See Appendix III)
5. analyse the ways in which the Indigenous 4. assess the consequences of Spanish
peoples of the Caribbean contributed to the settlements in the Caribbean up to 1600; and,
development of Caribbean societies;
5. explain the factors responsible for the
6. examine the relationships between post- conquests of the Mayas and the Incas by
independence Caribbean nation states and Spain in the sixteenth century.
the indigenous peoples of the Caribbean;
and,
7. examine the relationship among the
indigenous peoples of the Caribbean and
other parts of the Atlantic Region.
Unit 1: Module 1 – Content Unit 1: Module 1 – Content
Theme 1: European Colonialism and Theme 1: Social, Economic and Political
Indigenous struggle for sovereignty after 1800 Development of Caribbean and South
American Systems
(a) European policies toward the indigenous Comparative analysis of the development of
peoples: Caribbean and South American groups:
(i) legal;
(ii) economic; Group 1: Kalinago, Taino and Tupi groups
(iii) racial; and, Group 2: Aztec, Maya, and Inca
(iv) political.
(Comparative analysis should be made between
(b) The sources/types of conflicts and impact of TWO Indigenous groups, ONE from each of the
indigenous peoples’ interactions with categories above).
Europeans:
(i) Conflicts: Theme 2: Atlantic Connections
- legal;
- economic; 1. Contacts before 1492
- social (including conflicts over (a) evidence of West African movements to
gender); and, the Americas:
- political. - Van Sertima’s thesis;
(ii) Impact: (b) evidence of Nordic movements to the
- economic; Americas:
- social; and, - Settlement of L’Anse aux Meadows;
- political. - Vinland Sagas, for example, saga of
Erik the Red.
(c) Indigenous men’s and women’s resistance to 2. Portuguese and West African contacts
conquest and occupation of ancestral lands: before 1492
(i) protest (for example, revolts);
(ii) negotiation; and, 3. Spanish settlements in the Caribbean up to
(iii) advocacy. 1600:
- Economic activities;
(d) Comparative analysis of economic, social, - Mortality;
political and governance systems of - Encomienda;
Indigenous groups. - Slavery, resistance and warfare.
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