FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS
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Question
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They built plantations in Europe and worked to make sugar a major export of their country
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They started trading West African slaves across the Atlantic to work on the sugar plantations
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They set up plantations in West Africa and commissioned indentured servants to work the sugarcane fields
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The high demand for slaves was due to a shortage of laborers in Portugal. Black slaves were in higher demand than Moorish slaves because they were much easier to convert to Christianity and less likely to escape.
Detailed explanation-2: -Subsequently, Portuguese traders generally abandoned direct combat and established commercial relations with West and Central African leaders, who agreed to sell slaves taken from various African wars or domestic trading, as well as gold and other commodities, in exchange for European and North African goods.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Portuguese destroyed the Arab trade routes in the Indian Ocean between Africa, Arabia and India. The Portuguese replaced Arab control of the trade in ivory, gold and slaves with their own. They traded up the Zambezi river and interfered with the existing inland African trade.
Detailed explanation-4: -Sugar plantation brought great economic prosperity to countries like Portugal, Netherland, France, and Britain, but it also caused a lot of political problems such as war between European powers to get colonies such as one occurred between Netherland and Portugal over Brazil and slave rebellions.