Civilisation Anglophone

CIVILISATION DE LA CARAIBE ANGLOPHONE

I) The Caribbean : An Overseas

a- Caribbean institutions

Caribbean can be define : (Common)

- Geography

- History - colonisation/ relations with europe

- Culture

- Indigenous population

(Difference)

- Political status

- Languages

- Natural ressources – economie

- Social economic differences

Caribbean ? = entire region or West Indies ? = Anglophone countries

Commonwealth Caribbean

Antigua 1 November 1981 and Barbuda

The Bahamas

Barbados 30 november 19966

Dominica 3 November 1978

Grenada 7 February 1974

Jamaica 6 august 1962 first amoung the islands to get it’s Independence

Saint Lucia February 1979

Saint Kitts and Nevis

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 1974

Trinidad and Tobago 31 august 1962

BRITISH OVERSEAS TERRITORIES

Anguille

Bermuda

British Virgin islands

Cayman Island

Montserrat

Turks and Caicos Islands

MAINLAND CARIBEAN-Countries that share the same historical background

Guyana

Suriname

French Guyana

Belize

CARICOM

Organisation of Caribbean country and promote Caribbean intergration to ensure the benefits of intergration are properly shared And also to coordinate foreign Policy.

Activities= coordination of economic policies and developement planning

CARIFTA

Founded in 1968 by 5 british colonies Antigua, Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica And Trinidad and Tobago.

To intergrate Caribbean economic

WEST INDIES FEDERATION 1958 TO 1963

difficult to maintain an organisation and federation because they have the same products and they have the same ressources Jamaica and Trinidad Have the same ressources compared to other islands which don’t.

The smallest islands would relied on big islands for help.

Jamaica and Trinidad would relied on their own economy.

TIME FOR EXPLORATION

REASONS FOR GOING WEST:

-Economic

-Demographric

-Religious

THE REFORMATION

The need for Church reform

Luther’s Teaching

This birth of the protestantism

Excommunication

The spread of the Protantism Calvinism/ French calvinism

English Protestantism

Roman catholic religion

Pope: Head of the Church

Authority over religious matter : - Economic and Political

Corruption

bribery

Lack of faith

Reformers: Wanted to reform the Church Protestantes Protested

Because It would have a big impact in Europe.

Catholic

Catholic Protestand

Puritans

Separatists ( Pilgrims)

Division between europeans for religous reason because they dont’t have the same religion.

Before the reformation :

One religion: Roman Catholic

For all europeans

One head of the Church: The Pope

After The reformation:

Two reforms: Catholic and Protestant

Europeans are divided : ( French : Catholic expect Huguenots

English: Protestant

Dutch: Protestant but the Netherlands Under spanish

Control

Spaniards: Catholic

Religious Division – Dispute and Wars

b- Trinidad/Tobago and Jamaica

The original inhabitants of Trinidad migrated from the:

-Orinoco river

- Delta region of notheastern

- South America

Spanish prensence Establish in the 16th century

Cariban Speakers

Arawakan language

Today = a groupe called the Santa Rosa Caribs of Arima claims a descent from the orignal inhabitants

Trinidad ethnic compositions

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