At the light-colored extreme are rocks made up mainly of quartz and the feldspars, with about 70% silica. Such rocks are called granitic rock. Rocks which contain large amounts of the ferromagnesian dark matter and about 50% silica are said to have basaltic composition.
It became the House of Burgesses â the first legislative assembly in the American colonies. The first assembly met on July 30, 1619, in the church at Jamestown. Present were Governor Yeardley, Council, and 22 burgesses representing 11 plantations (or settlements) Burgesses were elected representatives.
A Cacique (. [kaËÎ¸ike] ; [kÉËsikÉ¨, kaËsiki] ; feminine form: cacica) is a leader of a indigenous group, derived from the Taino taÃ­no for the-Pre columbian chiefs or leaders of tribes in The, Bahamas Greater, antilles and the Northern Lesser. antillesn the Taino taÃ­no, culture the cacique rank was apparently established through democratic. Means his importance in the tribe was determined by the size of his tribe rather than his warlord, skills since The tainos taÃ­nos were mostly a. pacifist culture