The Arawak People

The Taino people would be best described as:

• Stone People

• A rain forest agricultural people

• The sea-fearing people of the reefs and forest wetlands

The Carib people would be best described as:

• Stone People

• A rain forest agricultural people

• The sea-fearing people of the reefs and forest wetlands

The Ciboney people would be best described as:

• Stone People

• A rain forest agricultural people

• The sea-fearing people of the reefs and forest wetlands

Each society was a small kingdom and the leader was called

• Conuco

• Cacique

• Guanahuatebey

The Arawak/Taino diet, like ours, centered around

• Meat or fish as the primary source of protein.

• Vegetables and fruit only

• None of the above

A dugout are

• Rafts used for fishing and moving along the coast.

• Canoes use for war.

• Canoes which were cut from a single tree trunk and used with paddles.

They used the bow and arrow, and had developed some poisons for their arrow tips.

• True

• False

Men and women alike adorned their bodies with paint and shells and other decorations.

• True

• False

The Arawak people were known to be war like and fought against the Caribs People.

• True

• False

We must base all our knowledge of them on artefacts that we discover or on written descriptions by the

• Drawings that are left behind by the Taino tribes

• European explorers who later arrived in the Caribbean.

• Evidence left behind by the Carib people.