Africa and the Atlantic World

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What group of people usually captured slaves in Africa? Options: Other Africans, Europeans, Mongols, Chinese

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Other Africans

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African slaves were first used to work on

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European sugar plantations.

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The transatlantic trading network that transported enslaved persons was known as...

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The Triangle Trade

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How did the African kings view the Africans they sold? Options: criminals, debtors, prisoners of war, fellow Africans, cannibals, European

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criminals, debtors, prisoners of war

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What was the journey undertaken by enslaved West Africans to the Americas aboard dismal conditions of slave ships?

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The Middle Passage

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What factor played the greatest role in determining a person's social status in Spanish and Portuguese empires in the Americas by the seventeenth century? Options: Commercial wealth, Land ownership, Racial ancestry, Religious affiliation

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Racial ancestry

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The Middle Passage involved which of the following new connections in the era from 1450 to 1750? Options: It was the route of enslaved Africans from the interior of Africa to the African coast, It was the voyage of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas, It was the triangular voyage of slave merchants between Europe, Africa, and the Americas, It was the route of enslaved Africans leaving slave ships in the Americas and going to plantations

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It was the voyage of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas

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Which statement is true about the slave trade in Africa? Options: The Atlantic slave trade was the beginning of slavery in Africa, Portuguese traders were the first to capture slaves in Africa, Slavery existed in Africa long before the arrival of Europeans, Arab merchants of the post-classical era were the first to trade for slaves in Africa

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Slavery existed in Africa long before the arrival of Europeans

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What was a major effect in Africa of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade?

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The ratio of males to females became unbalanced

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Which statement explains why Portugal became the first European nation to engage in widespread slave trading along the West Coast of Africa? Options: The Portuguese were pioneers in gunpowder and cannon technology, The Portuguese were more skilled in setting up trading posts, Only the Portuguese were willing to trade cannons for slaves, The Portuguese were pioneers in naval technology

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The Portuguese were pioneers in naval technology