USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -They were the politically and economically dominant states of Western Europe in the early modern period, which crucially had colonies and economic interests in the Americas: Spain and Portugal, England and France, the Netherlands and Denmark.

Detailed explanation-2: -It was the second of three stages of the so-called triangular trade, in which arms, textiles, and wine were shipped from Europe to Africa, enslaved people from Africa to the Americas, and sugar and coffee from the Americas to Europe.

Detailed explanation-3: -… early merchants prospered in the triangular trade of rum, molasses, and slaves between New England, Africa, and the West Indies.

Detailed explanation-4: -The destinations of slaves taken to the Americas were equally diverse. Slavers carried most of the Africans caught up in the trade to Brazil (approximately five million), with another 2.25 million sent to the British Caribbean, and about 1.75 million to the French Caribbean. Most of the rest landed in Spanish America.

Detailed explanation-5: -Slavery occurred in civilizations including ancient Egypt, ancient China, the Akkadian Empire, Assyria, Babylonia, Persia, ancient Israel, ancient Greece, ancient India, the Roman Empire, the Arab Islamic Caliphate and Sultanate, Nubia and the pre-Columbian civilizations of the Americas.