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How did the arrival of Columbus lead to the decline of the Arawaks?

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The Arawaks were an Indian people living on the Greater Antilles and South America. They were the first natives found by Christopher Columbus on the Hispaniola island (present-day Haiti and Dominican Republic). They were wiped out by Old World diseases to which they didn´t have any immunity. The Taino, the Arawak subgroup who lived on the Caribbean islands, were farmers and practiced slash-and-burn cultivation of cassava and corn.

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