Jamaica belongs to a group of islands created by the summits of a submerged mountain range connecting Central America to present day Venezuela. ... The Spanish Occupation (1494-1655) During his second voyage to the Americas, Christopher Columbus learned from the natives of Cuba of an island lying to the south rich with gold. ... As far as can be determined, the island was left unexplored until Columbus returned during his fourth voyage in June of 1503. ... Jago was slow during the entire period of Spanish colonization; most of the structures built were for governmental or religious ...

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It was rather their duty to spread to other nations those advantages which through the course of the centuries they had won for themselves." ... Backing this further, this almost false yet Whig way of looking at the British Empire meant an arguably ignorant view that the Empire was the white man's" burden and during its end was honourably discharged but deliberately wound up meaning there was absolutely no shame in the loss of the British Empire, rather they felt they had proudly come to a deserved end, passing on sovereignty to their "loyal" subjects.Darwin, arguably blaming the decline ...

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In the early communication research tradition led by Everett Rogers, Wilbur Schramm and Daniel Lerner during the 1960s, modern communication media were idealized as powerful instruments for achieving the announced goals of socio-economic modernization, national integration and cultural expression. ...

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