According to Charles Mann, this people drilled holes into gourds and stuffed them with chili peppers to create an early form of chemical grenade. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this Indigenous people of Hispaniola and other Caribbean islands. Some of them on the Bahamas were the first to encounter Christopher Columbus.
ANSWER: Taíno (“tah-EE-no”) [prompt on Arawak; reject “Carib”]
[10e] Mann discusses the Taíno in his two books titled for the years before and after this other year in which Columbus first landed in the Americas.
ANSWER: 1492
[10m] Residents of this island adopted the denonym Boricua from the Taíno word Borinquen. The cacique (“kah-SEE-kay”) Agüeybaná (“ah-GWAY-bah-nah”) rebelled against its first Spanish governor, Ponce de León.
ANSWER: Puerto Rico [or PR]
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