COLONIALISM AND IMPERIALISM
COLONIALISM AND ITS ANALYSIS
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Question
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During the period 1600-1800, from which continent did the majority of slaves come from?
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South America
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Africa
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Asia
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Europe
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Volume of Transatlantic Slave Trade by Region of Embarkation (in thousands) 1519–1700. The majority of all people enslaved in the New World came from West Central Africa.
Detailed explanation-2: -The majority went to South America and the Caribbean. In the mid-1600s, Africans outnumbered Europeans in nascent cities such as Mexico City, Havana and Lima.
Detailed explanation-3: -The vast majority of slaves transported to the New World were Africans from the central and western parts of the continent, sold by Africans to European slave traders who then transported them to the colonies in North and South America.
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