1. History of Jamaica
Jago was slow during the entire period of Spanish colonization; most of the structures built were for governmental or religious functions and reflected the "top-down" administration of the Spanish crown. Spanish expansion in the New World was centered on the extraction of precious metals, conversion of the indigenous population to Catholicism and obtaining strategic positions to protect Spanish interests. Thus the Spanish crown discarded Jamaica quite quickly when it was apparent that it possessed few gold deposits, but the Catholic Church, with the support of the Spanish crown continued its...
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