It's 1192, you are the head of the Lucayans, 30,000 American Indians that live in what is now called the Bahamas. Unlike the original Lucayans, you know that, unless thing change, your descendants will be wiped out by Christopher Columbus and the Europeans that follow him. What do you do?Our history, your future:
Taino people moved into the uninhabited southern Bahamas from Hispaniola and Cuba around the 7th century AD. These people came to be known as the Lucayans. There were an estimated 30,000+ Lucayans at the time of Columbus's arrival in 1492.
The Spaniards who followed Columbus depopulated the islands, carrying most of the indigenous people off into slavery. The Lucayans throughout the Bahamas were wiped out by exposure to diseases to which they had no immunity.[5] The smallpox that ravaged the Taino Indians after Columbus's arrival wiped out half of the population in what is now the Bahamas.[6]
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