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B. With 1.2 billion people, India is the most populous member of the 54-member Commonwealth of Nations, but it is not one of the 14 member nations that recognize Elizabeth II as their queen. All but two members of the Commonwealth of Nations – Mozambique and Rwanda - were once part of the British Empire.
A. The island was settled by the Spanish early in the 16th century. The native Taino Indians, who had inhabited Jamaica for centuries, gradually died off and were replaced by African slaves. England seized the island in 1655 and kept importing slaves. By the time England freed its slaves in 1838, black Jamaicans outnumbered whites by a ratio of 20 to 1.
C. Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica and Puerto Rico are the four largest islands in the Caribbean. All the islands were visited by Christopher Columbus, who established the first European colony in the New World on Hispaniola, which now contains the nations of Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
A. Bauxite rock is the principal ore used to produce aluminum. Jamaica's largest crop is sugarcane, which is used to make sugar and rum. During its first 200 years of British rule, Jamaica became one of the world's leading sugar-exporting, slave-dependent territories.