Europeans and the Slave Trade

True or false: before the 1450's the only way to "copy" a book was to hand write it, which took a very long time. Their were very few in circulation.

• True

• False

Books were copied by hand by _______.

• artist

• scientist

• monks

Books were not available to common people. They were available to ______ and _______.

(pick 2)

• clergy

• nobels

• artists

• farmers

Around 1450, __________invented the printing press, that used movable blocks of letters to print pages of texts.

• Johannes Gutenberg

• William Caxton

• King George

The invention, the printing press was important society because .....

• it helped spread ideas quickly

• it taught people to draw

• It made people tired

• It made clergy and nobles the only people who could read

_______- _______ helped to bring the printing press to England in 1476 and published the first book in the English language.

• William Caxton

• Johannes Gutenberg

• George Washington

• Eli Whitney

The first book to be published in the English Language was the ______.

• The Recuyell of the Histories of Troy

• The Bible

• The World Atlas

• The Beginning of Time

The first Europeans to arrive in West Africa in the 1400's were from _______.

• Portugal

• Spain

• Iceland

By ______ they had reached Ghana and had learned there was huge amounts of gold there. The Portuguese had begun to build forts to keep other European nations out. They were not strong enough.

• 1471

• 1492

• 1572

• 1982

The coast became known as West African _______ _______.

• Gold Coast

• Amber sand

• Gold Mountain