Caribbean History Syllabus

Grade 10 (September – December 2021)

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The Indigenous Peoples of the
Americas
 Explain the migration and settlement
patterns of Indigenous groups in the
Americas
 Describe their social, religious,
political and economic organizations
 Migration of Indigenous groups
 Settlement patterns of Indigenous
groups
 Social, political, religious and
economic organizations of Indigenous
groups
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The Europeans Explain the factors motivating
Europeans to explore and settle in the
Caribbean
 
Assess the effects of Spanish
colonization on the Indigenous
populations
Describe European settlement and
rivalry in the Caribbean up to 1763
Content
I. Factors motivating Europeans to
explore
II. Effects of Spanish colonization on
the Indigenous populations
III. European settlement and rivalry in
the Caribbean
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Sugar Revolution Explain the reasons for the change I. Define Sugar Revolution,
from tobacco to sugar II. Reasons for the change
  III. Changes as a result of the Sugar
Assess the social, political and Revolution
economic consequences of the Sugar - Population
Revolution - Monoculture
- Absenteeism
- Stratified Society
- Land Tenure
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Introduction of Enslaved Explain the reasons for the Reasons Africans became
Africans enslavement of Africans in the desired labour force
the Caribbean I. Accessibility
II.Affordability
III.Demand
IV.European attempts to
justify enslavement of
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The Slave Trade in Describe the Trans- Trans-Atlantic Trade

Africans Atlantic Trade in I. Organization
Africans II.Impact on West
African Societies
III.Experiences of its
victims
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The 18th Century Sugar Describe the organization Physical Layout and use of
Plantation – Social and of a typical sugar labour (male and female)
Physical Organization plantation Social Relations:
  I. Class
Describe the social II.Gender
relations in slave society III.Ethnic relations
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The 18th Century Sugar Describe the Sugar production:

Plantation – Sugar and manufacturing processes - Field, factory and
Rum production on a typical sugar shipping
plantation before 1838 Rum production:
- Fermentation,
distillation, aging and
bottling
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Marketing of Sugar Identify the markets for Markets for Sugar and
and Rum product from typical Rum;
sugar plantation Profitability, risks