__________ drastically altered the ethnic make-up of the Caribbean.

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Colonialism, specifically by European powers, drastically altered the ethnic make-up of the Caribbean. The forced migration and enslavement of Africans to work on sugar plantations, and the decimation of indigenous populations through violence and disease, resulted in a predominantly Afro-Caribbean population with significant European and some Asian and Middle Eastern influence. Immigration, natural factors, and civil wars have had an impact on the Caribbean, but not to the extent that colonialism has.

__________ Drastically Altered the Ethnic Make-Up of the Caribbean