FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
THE COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE
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a route through the Swiss Alps
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a narrow body of water connecting two larger bodies of water
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the forced journey of enslaved Africa to the Americas
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the expulsion of Muslims from Spain
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Middle Passage was the stage of the Atlantic slave trade in which millions of enslaved Africans were transported to the Americas as part of the triangular slave trade .
Detailed explanation-2: -Middle Passage, the forced voyage of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the New World.
Detailed explanation-3: -Between 1700 and 1808, the most active years of the international slave trade, merchants transported around 40% of enslaved Africans in British and American ships.
Detailed explanation-4: -Once on board, crewmembers segregated enslaved Africans by gender and then chained and packed them closely together in ship holds. Captives then endured up to several months of extreme temperatures, harsh weather, filthy living conditions, and contagious diseases in these ship holds as they crossed the Atlantic Ocean.
Detailed explanation-5: -Africans from every geographic region and ethnicity shared in this history from the 15th through the 19th Centuries. All those who survived the Middle Passage contributed to the economic, cultural, social, religious, and linguistic development of each place where they landed.