FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
THE COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE
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Many African communities faced economic disaster
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European industrial factories were established throughout Africa.
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Africans across the continent hired Europeans to train their military
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The slave trade had devastating effects in Africa. Economic incentives for warlords and tribes to engage in the slave trade promoted an atmosphere of lawlessness and violence. Depopulation and a continuing fear of captivity made economic and agricultural development almost impossible throughout much of western Africa.
Detailed explanation-2: -Furthermore, the Atlantic trade led to the formation of semi-feudal classes in Africa that collaborated with Europeans to sanction the oppression of their own people. These classes came from the African aristocracy and middlemen who facilitated the capture and sale of Africans and made substantial gains from the trade.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Transatlantic Slave Trade enriched many white people across occupations and industries-from early European colonists to priests and popes, shipbuilders to rum and textile producers, bankers to insurers-and generated the capital used to build some of America’s greatest cities and most successful companies.
Detailed explanation-4: -Consistent with the historic evidence, the data indicate that the effects of the slave trades are through ethnic frac-tionalization, weakened states, and a decline in the quality of domestic institutions.