Question 1

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Europeans made the first steps toward an Atlantic slave trade in the 1440s when sailors
from what country, landed in West Africa in search of gold, spices, and allies against the
Muslims and the Ottoman Empire who dominated Mediterranean trade?

  
Spain
 

  
France
 

  
Englad
 
Correct!
  
Portugal
 
 
Question 2
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Which of the following was not a factor in  the Spanish demand for African work force?

  
Early Spanish settlers reported one African was equal to that of four to eight Native
Americans.
 

  
Native Americans died in large numbers from European diseases.
 
Correct!
  
The Spanish believed African nations would enslave them in the near future.
 

  
Because of sugarcane, the Spanish planter needed a large, controllable work force.
 
 
Question 3
1 / 1 pts
In Kongo in west central Africa, there was no such thing as a class of slaves but many
people belonged to a

  
powerful middle class.
 

  
subjugated group that were sacrificed to the sun god by the millions.
 
Correct!
  
transitory group of servile subjects.
 

  
culture that treated everyone like kinds and queens.
 
 
Question 4
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What were some of the devastating impacts of  the Atlantic Slave Trade on West
African societies as a whole?

  
West African societies stopped practicing all their cultural traditions to become like
Europeans.
 

  
West African societies began manufacturing their own gunpowder that was highly
explosive and deadly.
 
Correct!
  
West African societies lost kinship networks, agricultural laborers and production.
 

  
West African societies became plagued by Ebola.
 
 
Question 5
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Which European nation  dominated the first 130 years of the transatlantic African slave
trade?
Correct!
  
Portugal
 

  
Spain
 

  
England
 

  
France
 
 
Question 6
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European slavers transported millions of Africans across the ocean in a terrifying
journey known as the

  
Royal Caribbean Cruise
 

  
The Trail of Tears
 

  
Underground Railroad
 
Correct!
  
Middle Passage
 
 
Question 7
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For Africans, who experienced the Middle Passage, what was the first part of the
journey?
Correct!
  
An overland journey in Africa to a coastal slave-trading factory.
 

  
An oceanic trip lasting from one to six months in a slaver.
 

  
An uphill journey into the heavens.
 

  
An acculturation (known as “seasoning”) and transportation to the American mine,
plantation, or other location where new slaves were forced to labor.
 
 
Question 8
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For Africans, who experienced the Middle Passage, what was the journey like?

  
An acculturation (known as “seasoning”) and transportation to the American mine,
plantation, or other location where new slaves were forced to labor.
 

  
An uphill journey into the heavens.
 
Correct!
  
An oceanic trip lasting from one to six months in a slaver.
 

  
An overland journey in Africa to a coastal slave-trading factory.
 
 
Question 9
1 / 1 pts
For Africans, who experienced the Middle Passage, what was the third part of the
journey?
Correct!
  
An acculturation (known as “seasoning”) and transportation to the American mine,
plantation, or other location where new slaves were forced to labor.
 

  
An oceanic trip lasting from one to six months in a slaver.
 

  
An overland journey in Africa to a coastal slave-trading factory.
 

  
An uphill journey into the heavens.
 
 
Question 10
1 / 1 pts
Dysentery, known as “the bloody flux,”

  
killed everyone onboard the slave ship.
 

  
made captives lose so much skin and flesh from chafing against metal and timber that
their bones protruded.
 
Correct!
  
left captives lying in pools of excrement.
 

  
was easily controlled onboard the slave ships.