Jamaica Research Paper

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Although sugar has brought sweet economic growth it has left many bitter trails through out Jamaica’s history. First introduced by the Spaniards in sixteenth century, they brought pigs and cattle to raise in beginning but soon two extremely different things that would greatly change the course of this little islands future. Jamaica’s natives, the Arawaks, were originally from South America which is approximately five-hundred miles away. When the Europeans arrived they brought many diseases which they were not immune, along harsh treatment of the natives that killed the majority of their population. After greatly depleting the native population, the Spaniards now introduced sugar and slaves, to forever change Jamaica’s future. Not being able