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Early Settlers to the Caribbean

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The people who lived before us are our ancestors.

a)

True

b)

False

2.

The first people who came to the Caribbean were the

a)

Chinese

b)

Americans

c)

Amerindians

3.

In what did they travel to the Caribbean

a)

yachts

b)

canoes

c)

planes

4.

The two main groups who traveled to the Caribbean were the

a)

Africans and Asians

b)

Caribs and Arawaks

c)

French and English

5.

The (a)   houses were round with thatched roofs.

6.

The _______ worked together to collect the natural resources around them?

a)

Arawaks

b)

Caribs

c)

All of the above

7.

The ______ worshiped the spirits of the ancestors and gods called zemis.

a)

Caribs

b)

Arawaks

8.

The men and boys of the ________ met together in a special house called a carbet?

a)

Arawaks

b)

Caribs

9.

What was the name given to the leader of the Arawak?

a)

oubooutou

b)

maboya

c)

cacique

10.

What was the name given to the leader of the Caribs?

a)

oubooutou

b)

maboya

c)

cacique

11.

Which of these groups believed in good and evil spirits and that the good spirits brought rain and helped their crops to grow.

a)

Arawaks

b)

Caribs

12.

Both the Caribs and Arawaks hunted and fished to survive?

a)

True

b)

False

13.

Christopher Columbus named our island Dominica but the Caribs already had a name for it. What was it?

a)

Dominica

b)

Portsmouth

c)

Waitukubuli

14.

Your school is going on a trip to the Kalinago Territory. Which of the villages below will you visit on this trip.

a)

Salybia

b)

Crayfish River

c)

Sineku

d)

All of the Above

15.

Fights took place between the Caribs and the Arawaks but the Caribs were the one who attacked the Arawaks.

a)

True

b)

False