Crash Course Video- The Atlantic Slave Trade

How many African slaves were forcibly moved from Africa to the Americas between 1500 to 1880CE?

• 15-17 million

• 10-12 million

• 20-22 million

• 5-7 million

What percentage of slaves went to the Caribbean?

• 25%

• 35%

• 48%

• 60%

What was the primary crop cultivated by slaves in the Caribbean and Brazil?

• Wheat

• Corn

• Sugar

• Rice

What is the term used by historians to indicate that the slaves were move-able property?

• Feudal serfdom

• Indentured servitude

• Chattel slavery

• Sharecropping

Who was the first to consider otherness a characteristic of slaves?

• Judeo-Christians

• Greeks

• Romans

• Muslim Arabs

What percentage of the total Roman population were slaves?

• 30%

• 40%

• 10%

• 20%

What did the Bible use to justify the enslavement of Africans?

• The Psalms

• The story of Noah

• The Book of Proverbs

• The Ten Commandments

Who were the first to import large numbers of Bantu speaking Africans to their territory as slaves?

• Spanish

• Portuguese

• Muslim Arabs

• Greeks

What was the term used for the giant farms on which the Romans used mass numbers of slaves to work the land?

• Latifundia

• Plantations

• Manors

• Estates

What was the primary reason for the continued need to import slaves into Brazil until slavery ended in the 1880s?

• Economic growth

• Population decline

• Cultural exchange

• Labor shortage