HISTORY
IMPERIALISM ASIA
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Tobacco
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Coffee
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Cocoa
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Gold
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Detailed explanation-1: -Other items such as tea and spices were also sent to the colonies. The goods that needed to be brought from England to Africa included iron products, cloth, trinkets and beads, copper, guns and ammunition. Slaves were the most important ‘commodity’ sent from Africa.
Detailed explanation-2: -The ships were loaded with export crops and commodities, the products of slave labour, such as cotton, sugar and rum, and returned to Britain to sell the items. The Isle of Man was involved in the transatlantic African slave trade.
Detailed explanation-3: -Rum and manufactured goods taken by New World merchants to Africa were sold in exchange for enslaved people. These slaves were taken to the New World and sold. Slavers used the proceeds to buy mahogany and molasses, and the cycle continued onward.