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The French Antilles
Guadalupe
Question | Answer |
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French speaking islands | Guadalupe, Martinique, Saint Martin, and Saint-Barthélémy |
Original Peoples | arawaks and caribs |
Christopher Coloumbus | discovered the pineapple |
French Settlement | settled in 1635, wiped out a large part of the native population, was seized by britian many times, 1815 it became French indefinitely, 1848 slavery abolshed |
Ethnic groups | Population mostly of African or mixed descent Europeans, Indians, Lebanese, Syrians, Chinese, and descendants of Carib Indians |
Language and Religion | French and Creole, Roman Catholic |
Climate | Tropical tempered by trade winds; moderately high humidity |
Resources | It has slowly been replaced by bananas (50% of exports), eggplant, yam, plantain, cocoa, pomegranate, many varieties of tropical fruits/vegetables and flowers use to be sugar cane and rhum dependent on france for imported foods |