In 1548, spanish historian fernandez de oviedo wrote "there are not now believed to be at the present time…five hundred persons left" what was he writing about?

Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo y Valdes was a Spanish historian, and one of the main sources we have of life in the Caribbean shortly after the Spanish conquest.

In this sentence, Fernandez de Oviedo is talking about the decimation of the indigenous Taino people on the island of La Hispaniola. Victims of warfare, but mostly infectious diseases, their culture was lost almost completely in a few years. At the arrival of the Spanish conquistadors in Taino population in La Hispaniola was between 100,000 and 1,000,000.

Bartolome de Las Casas wrote that:

"There were 60,000 people living on this island [when I arrived in 1508], including the Indians; so that from 1494 to 1508, over three million people had perished from war, slavery and the mines. Who in future generations will believe this?"

Although the exact numbers are uncertain, it is believed that about 80-90% of the Taino population was exterminated in thirty years.

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(2) yellowstone national park is an american national park located in wyoming,montana and idaho and is a colonial heritage site.it was established by us congress and signed into law by president ulysses g grant on march 1,1872.yellowstone is usa's and world's first national park and a heritage site.the park is also known for its wildlife and its geothermal geysers.

(3) yosemite national park: : : colonial heritage site in north in western sierra nevada of central was designated a world heritage site in 1984..it is famous for its granite cliffs,waterfalls,clear streams,giant sequoia groves,lakes,mountains,glaciers and biological

(4) grand canyon national park: : colonial heritage site in north in north western arizona and is 15th site declared as national park..the park's central feature is the grand canyon, a gorge of the colorado river,which is also considered one of the wonders of the world.the park covers 1217262 acres.the grand canyon was designated a world heritage site in by unesco in 1979.

(5) taos pueblo

(6) redwood national park

(7) cahokia mounds

(8) wrangell-st. elias national park

(9) glacier bay national park

(10) kluane national park

(11) tatshenshini-alsek provincial park

(12) mammoth cave national park

(13) olympic national park

(14) great smoky mountains national park

(15) quebec city

(16) everglades national park

(17) lunenburg, nova scotia

(18) glacier national park

(19)chichen itza

the correct answer is 50.