Essay About Age Of Stone And Whole Gamut Of Culture

Why the Cross over from Tobacco to Sugar
Sugar was much more profitable than tobacco
Sugar became popular in Europe as a result of Tea and Sweets and Honey was becoming to Expensive
Tobacco was non perishable and Sugar was not.
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vital change from one culture to another at tempos varying
from gradual to sudden. But in Cuba the cultures that have
influenced the formation of its folk have been so many and so
diverse in their spatial position and their structural composition that this vast blend of races and cultures overshadows in
importance every other historical phenomenon. Even economic
phenomena, the most basic factors of social existence, in Cuba
are almost always conditioned by the different cultures. In Cuba
I· the terms Ciboney, Taino, Spaniard, Jew, English, French,
Anglo-American, Negro, Yucatec, Chinese, and Creole do not
mean merely the different elements that go jnto the make-up
of the Cuban nation, as expressed by their different indications
of origin. Each of these has come to mean in addition the synthetic and historic appellation of one of the various economies
and cultures that have existed in Cuba successively and even
simultaneously, at times giving rise to the most terrible clashes.
We have only to recall that described by Bartolome de las Casas
as the “destruction of the Indies.”
The whole gamut of culture run by Europe in a span of more
than four millenniums took place in Cuba in less than four
centuries. In Europe the change was step by step; here it was
by leaps and bounds. First there was the culture of the Ciboneys
and the Guanajabibes, the paleolithic culture, our ston~ age.
Or, to be more exact, our age of stone and wood, of unpolished
stone and rough wood, and of sea shells and fish bones, which
were like stones and thorns of the sea.
After this came the culture of the Taino Indians, which was
neolithic. This was the age of polished stone and carved