Lucayans correct answers - The first inhabitants of THE BAHAMAS.
Which group of people were given the name "Indians" by Columbus ? correct answers Lucayans
What did Lucayans refer to themselves as? correct answers Lukku Kairi
What does Lukku Kairi mean? correct answers people of the small islands
What is the word "Cay" derived from? correct answers LuyCAYans
Who was the first tourist to THE BAHAMAS? correct answers Christopher Columbus
Where did Columbus first land and when? correct answers He landed on Guanahani (San
Salvador) on October 12 1942
What did Columbus rename Guanhani to? correct answers San Salvador
What does San Salvador mean ? correct answers Holy Saviour
What was Eleuthera once known as? correct answers Cigatoo
Who did the Eleutheran Adventurers reach out to for assistance during their economic hardship?
correct answers Residents of Boston Massachusetts
What is the significance of Braziletto wood? correct answers It was the wood the Eleutheran
Adventures shipped to Boston in gratitude for the help, the wood was used to build Harvard
University.
Who did King Charles II grant THE BAHAMAS to in 1670? correct answers 6 proprietors of
South Carolina
Who was the first appointed Royal Governor ? correct answers Royal Governor Woodes
Rodgers, who was committed to eradicating piracy.
When was the first meeting of Parliamentary Democracy held? correct answers 29 September,
1729. established by Woodes Rodgers after his reappointment
What was the colony's first motto? correct answers "Ezpulsis Piratis Restituta Commercia"
meaning The pirates being expelled, commerce was restored.
When was THE BAHAMAS restored to Great Britain? correct answers 1783, by a treaty with
Spain. ( The Spanish invaded Nassau, occupied Forts, took the Governor captive, and remained
there for a year.