Caribbean Islands for luxury Holidays.
As a result of the area's stormy history of invasion and slavery the Caribbean is populated by people from many different ethnic backgrounds. Few of the Caribbean's original inhabitants remain. The many different languages spoken reflect the wide range of places from which Caribbean peopled ancestors came. Most of the 36 million people who live in the Caribbean today are descended from those brought from West Africa in the 16th and 17th centuries to work as slaves on sugar plantations. The native Caribbean people were almost completely wiped out by European invaders.
The Caribbean is named after
the Carib Indians. They lived in
the lesser Antilles when the
first Spanish explorers arrived
in the 15th century The warlike
Caribs had driven out the
island's original inhabitants, the
Arawak Indians. People from many different ethnic
backgrounds mingle at a street market
on Curasao, in the lesser Antilles, The
first inhabitants of the Caribbean were
Arawak Indians.Visit: Cheap Sunmaster Holidays
