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the West Indies noun uk /ˌwest ˈɪn.diz/ us /ˌwest ˈɪn.diz/ a large group of islands between the Caribbean and the Atlantic Ocean西印度群岛(位于加勒比和大西洋之间) SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Countries, nationalities & continents: continents & regions of the world Afrocentric Afrocentrism amazonian Antarctica Antipodean black Africa Caribbean interhemispheric Lapland LATAM Latin America longitude meridian parallel pole the Antipodes the International Date Line the South Pole the subtropics the Tropic of Cancer
The colonies in the West Indies and America needed workers for the plantations. This business between Europe, Africa, the West Indies, and the United States was called the “triangle trade”. When Columbus went to the West Indies for the second time, in 1493, he took a sugar cane plant with him. |