The most populated island of The Bahamas is New Providence Island. The People of this country are made up of about 83% African, 12% European, and 3% Asian and Hispanic. These people arrived here around the time Christopher Columbus landed in the New World, and started to be used as slaves being brought from Africa to the Americas.
The island of the Bahamas was first inhabited around 600 and 800 ad by the Lucayans which arrived from Cuba and Hispaniola. These Indians called this area Baja Mar which means shallow seas in Spanish.
The Lucayans met with Columbus on his first voyage in 1492, on the island of San Salvador. This is where Columbus traded foods and native spices.
After Columbus's landfall in the New World, slave traders captured the Lucayans to work at gold mines in Hispaniola. The other Lucayans died from disease by the European's measles and influenza, and by 1515 the entire population of the Lucayans had deceases.
The islands where then uninhabited until 1647, when Englishmen from Bermuda settled on Eleuthera.
The Bahamas were eventually crowned by Brittan in 1718 and where inhabited by loyalists from New York, Florida, and the Carolinas.
The country of the Bahamas is an independent country that is part of The Commonwealth of the Nations.
The commonwealth of the nation is an organization that shares economic background and has equal interaction with each other. The president of this organization is The Queen of the United Kingdom.
