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Hispaniola

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Christopher Columbus landed in Modern day Haiti on December 5th,
1492, and anchored of the northline shoreline of Haiti. But on
TAINOS - NATIVE
December 24th of 1492 Christopher Columbus’s ship sank in a small
AMERICANS straife of water. Columbus then ventured out onto a small island and
went into a native Taino settlement, where he was given hospitality
from the native Tainos. Soon it was time for Columbus to depart
back to Spain to report his findings, but he left 39 troops behind in
TREATY OF RYSWICK - a settlement that was known as Natividia, to examine the native

TREATY BETWEEN colonies. Christopher Columbus returned back to Haiti in 1493 and
established a permanent settlement that was called La Isabela. After
SPAIN AND FRANCE Columbus’s return many Spanish settlers also started entering Haiti,
THAT OFFICIALY and by 1496 they had established the colony of Santo Domingo and
by 1504 ( after the war of Higuey) Spain had conquered Haiti and
RECOGNIZED SAINT
named it Hispaniola. Following the decade after Spain's conquest,
DOMINGUE AS A the Tainos population had dropped from 1 million to only 32,000,
FRENCH COLONY this was due to their poor living conditions as they had either died
from enslavement, disease or murder. Then in 1659 the French
invaded the western portion of Hispaniola, conquered it, and
established a colony of their own which was named Saint Domingue.
This colony was recognized by Spain in 1697 by the Treaty Of
Ryswick. After this the entire island of Hispaniola was split into half,
with Spain in control of the right side (Santo Domingo) and France
controlling the left side (Saint Domingue). The French colony of
Saint Domingue’s soon rose to become one of the richest colonies in
the world due to their slave based agricultural plantations.