These people's settlements were built around a central batey plaza in circular houses with pointed roofs.
This civilization's lower classes, the naboria, fished and cultivated small raised gardens called conucos. These people's settlements were built around a central batey plaza in circular houses with pointed roofs. Under rebel leaders such as Hatuey, they resisted a system which forced them to dig for gold. A letter addressed to two monarchs said that "as few as fifty men" could subjugate these people. Howard Zinn vows to write from this ethnic group's perspective in the first chapter of A People's History of the United States, which calls them "naked, tawny, and full of wonder." Chiefs called caciques ruled these people, from whose language we get the names Jamaica and Haiti. For 10 points, name these indigenous peoples of the Caribbean, the first to meet Christopher Columbus.
This civilization's lower classes, the naboria, fished and cultivated small raised gardens called conucos.
TaÃ­nos [or Arawaks; prompt on answers such as "indigenous Hispaniolans" or "indigenous Cubans;" prompt on "indigenous Jamaicans" before "Jamaica" is read; do not accept "Carib"]