Trinidad and Tobago's history is that of a Carribean island.
It saw first of all people arriving in 7000BC,. who are nicknamed Archaic or Ortoiroid, probably coming from northeastern South America, such as Venezuala. One important site is Banwari Trace which is the oldest human settlement in the east Caribbean. The Archaic populations were pre-ceramic, In 250 BC ceramic-using people, the Saladoid people, came. These people are said to have come from South America, from the Orinoco River in Venezuela. They then headed north occupying other isles. After 250 AD the Barrancoid people are supposed to have come to southern Trinidad. aslo coming up the Orinoco toward the sea. From 650 AD, the Arauquinoid came up the river to the coast.
In 1300 AD new people came, the Mayoid, of new pottery including the Nepoya and Suppoya, seemibngly Arawak-speaking, and Yao Carib-speaking, Then in 1492 Columbus reached the Americas. this saw Spanish colonisers push locals into forms of slavery. Few survivors organised into Missions by Capuchin friars, and assimilated. Small groups still survive.
Columbus named Trinidad after the Trinty Hills, 3 hills, or as he just wanted to name the next isle he saw after the Holy Trinity. Salves were often used in pearl fisheries by teh Spanis Kingdom's coolonsiers. Proper Spanish settl;ements were not started to the sixteenth centuery, normally missions, for locals.
In 1699 100s of Trinidadian locals were killed in a mini war. for masscring some priests, who had led teh local slaving.. http://www.centrelink.org/arena.htm
10s were massacred by each side.
40,000 people in 1498, to 4,000 in 1634
The officials stats say there were 2700 people in the isle in 1783, of which most were Amerinidian.
1777 2,763 were on Trindad, of which 2,000 were Arawaks.
When Britain grabbed the isle, 1797 the population upped to 17,643,
Who were 1082 Amerindians, 2086 whites, 1082 free coloured people, and 10009 African slaves.
By 1960 827,957 and included none of the original inhabitants.
From the 1830s, , Britain started bringing in Chinese, and Indian, people to replace teh edn of slavery, many coolies were pushed into slave-like conditions, and many slaves stayed in slave'like or serf-like ways after 1833. Coolie style ways ended in 1917.
Cacao replaced Sugar in teh 19th century. Some Coolies, became rich farmers, though.
Trindad's people saw a assembly start in 1925, for teh rich, then in 1946 universal suffrage.
Along with the rest of the Carribean there were labour riots in teh 1930s, which saw deaths across the region, and the establishment of unions, to bring in more democracy.
The Radical British Empire Citizens' and Workers' Home Rule Party, of Butler was first place in the elections, of 1946, and teh 1950s, then saw the British ask rival to form eth governm,ent fearing hjim as a radical. A conservative style Party founded in 1955, and won elections for 30 yeras. There were boycotts in the 1971, election. Then party members joined the opposition, reviving them.
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The country became a republic in 1976,
In 1970 there was a failed black power army mutiny, on quite socialist grounds, the Country's leader suppressed it, and said he supported soem of theor goals, to placate them.
A multi-ethnic opposistion won the elecvtion in 1986, after the death of the country's leader some years earlier.
The union led Indian, element started leaving teh group, as this new government started privatisation policies, and neo-liberal ways.
In 1991 the Conservative style party the PNM, beat the NAR coalition.
In 1991 Black Muslim coup attemt was defeated.
Each followed neo-liberal economics.In 1995, the union leading, Indian, Party was elected.
And tehy were followed by the PNM again in 2001.
Tobago has had a similar history, and has it's own legislature,In 1632 the Dutch sent colonies to Tobago. In the 1640s to end of teh century the German Latvian colony of Couland, in Poland, tried tocolonise Tobago. It was swamoped by Dutch invasion. Then the French took it. The French took it after giving it to teh Brits in teh 1780s, then it was given to Britain in 1814.
Both isles, Trinidad and Tobago, attempt to be tourist destinations, and see many holiday makers, from around the world, travel to Trindad, and travel to Tobago.
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