Desde la colonización hasta hoy.
Belize’s coastal forests were inhabited by Maya communities for centuries before European contact, and Spain claimed the territory in the sixteenth century without establishing a permanent settlement, as sustained Maya resistance and dense terrain deterred colonization. English buccaneers and log-cutters, later known as Baymen, began settling the coast informally from the 1630s onward, harvesting logwood […]
The Barbados colonial period began in 1625, when Captain John Powell claimed the uninhabited island for England; a party of eighty settlers and ten enslaved Africans led by his brother Henry Powell landed in 1627 to found the first permanent colony. Early planters cultivated tobacco and cotton with a mixed labor force of English indentured […]
The Bahamas colonial period began in 1648, when English Puritan settlers known as the Eleutheran Adventurers, fleeing religious intolerance in Bermuda, established the first permanent European colony on the island of Eleuthera. Settlement soon spread to New Providence, whose harbor developed into the town of Nassau. The islands’ thin, rocky soils discouraged large-scale plantation agriculture, […]
The Argentina colonial period began in the early sixteenth century with Spanish colonization, though the region long remained a peripheral outpost of the Viceroyalty of Peru, governed from distant Lima. Buenos Aires, founded in 1536 and refounded in 1580 after an earlier abandonment, grew slowly; lacking the silver and gold of the Andes, the area […]
Antigua’s difficult terrain and limited fresh water discouraged early Spanish and French settlement, and the island’s indigenous Kalinago (Carib) inhabitants resisted colonization for over a century. English settlers from the nearby colony of Saint Kitts established the first permanent European settlement in 1632, initially cultivating tobacco, indigo, and ginger. Barbuda, settled somewhat later, was largely […]
