SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
RISE OF THE SLAVE TRADE BLACK HISTORY IN COLONIAL AMERICA
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Portuguese, Spanish, American, Britsh
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Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Andorra
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Anglo, Antigua, Argentina, Armenia
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -It is possible that Columbus also brought enslaved Africans with him on his first voyage, making him the first “triangle trader, ” and as the various European powers began establishing their colonies in North and South America, introducing cash crops like sugarcane and adopting others like tobacco.
Detailed explanation-2: -The triangular trade worked to maximise profits. English goods were traded in Africa, from where enslaved people were carried on the infamous middle passage across the Atlantic to the Caribbean and America. Goods produced in the New World were transported back to England.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Triangular Trade, referring to a system of profitable exchange that encompassed Europe, Africa, and European colonial possessions in the Americas, took place from the 1500s to the 1700s.
Detailed explanation-4: -Mercantilism led to the emergence of what’s been called the “triangular trade”: a system of exchange in which Europe supplied Africa and the Americas with finished goods, the Americas supplied Europe and Africa with raw materials, and Africa supplied the Americas with enslaved laborers.