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THE TRIANGULAR TRADE

1.- How many centuries was the Atlantic Slave trade working?

From the 1455 to 1866

2.- What continents got involved in the Triangular trade?

Europe, Africa and America.

3.- How many black people were carried to America due to this type of trade?

12 million people.

4.- What was the detonant of this type of trade?

The establishement of portuguese colonies in the coast of Africa and the Spanish ones in
America.

5.- What type of products were cultivated in these new lands?

Sugar cane, tobacco, coffe, cotton…

6.- What type of produtcs were offered by the Europeans to the Africans in Exchange for
slaves?

Guns, weapons, ron…

7.- What percentage of slaves never arrived to their destinations?

About a 20%

8.- What was one of the most common believes of the Africans when they saw Whitepeople
for the first time?

They thought they were cannibals.

9.- What type of activity was the one that men had to do on the ships to keep fit?

Dancing

10.- What were the main consequences for Africa?

Lose of population

Long term demographical impact

Colapse of the slavery dependent kingdoms

Colonisation

Civil wars due to European weapons.

Inestability.

Racism.

11.- What year is considered the one of the end of slavery in Africa and Europe?

1807

12.- What was the Christian justification for this practise?

They considered Africans as a biological inferior humans.

THE TRIANGULAR TRADE

1.- How many centuries was the Atlantic Slave trade working?

2.- What continents got involved in the Triangular trade?

3.- How many black people were carried to America due to this type of trade?

4.- What was the detonant of this type of trade?

5.- What type of products were cultivated in these new lands?

6.- What type of produtcs were offered by the Europeans to the Africans in Exchange for
slaves?

7.- What percentage of slaves never arrived to their destinations?

8.- What was one of the most common believes of the Africans when they saw Whitepeople
for the first time?

9.- What type of activity was the one that men had to do on the ships to keep fit?

10.- What were the main consequences for Africa?

11.- What year is considered the one of the end of slavery in Africa and Europe?

12.- What was the Christian justification for this practise?