Question

What happened during the encounterment of the Europeans and the Tainos

Answer 1

Answer: When they were first encountered by Europeans, the Taino practiced a high-yielding form of shifting agriculture to grow their staple foods, cassava, and yams. They would burn the forest or scrub and then heap the ashes and soil into mounds that could be easily planted, tended, and irrigated.

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Answer 2

The Spanish treated the Tainos very poorly, as they exploited them and lacked regard for their welfare.In Hispaniola — what is now Haiti and the Dominican Republic — Columbus encountered the Lucayans' cousins, the Taíno. ... There Columbus built a fort where he left a few dozen of his crew, killed two people, took more hostages and sailed back to Spain.