{"id":85020,"date":"2021-11-11T14:07:30","date_gmt":"2021-11-11T14:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/?p=85020"},"modified":"2021-11-11T14:07:30","modified_gmt":"2021-11-11T14:07:30","slug":"what-is-the-old-name-of-hispaniola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/what-is-the-old-name-of-hispaniola\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the old name of \u201cHispaniola\u201d?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A. Iran<br \/>\nB. Cuba<br \/>\nC. Fiji<br \/>\n<strong>D. Haiti<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Explanation:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Las Casas shortened the name to\u00a0<b>Espa\u00f1ola<\/b>, and when Peter Martyr detailed his account of the island in Latin, he rendered its name as Hispaniola. Due to Ta\u00edno, Spanish and French influences on the island, historically the whole island was often referred to as Haiti, Hayti, Santo Domingo, or Saint-Domingue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A. Iran B. Cuba C. Fiji D. Haiti Explanation: Las Casas shortened the name to\u00a0Espa\u00f1ola, and when Peter Martyr detailed his account of the island in Latin, he rendered its name as Hispaniola. Due to Ta\u00edno, Spanish and French influences on the island, historically the whole island was often referred to as Haiti, Hayti, Santo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52812,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[280],"tags":[26728],"class_list":{"0":"post-85020","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-geography-mcqs","8":"tag-geography"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}