Triangular Slave Trade EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100% SOLVED (Newest 2025) Transatlantic slave trade - Correct Answers ✅Trading of slaves from West Africa to the Americas (West Indies) How did the transatlantic slave trade begin? - Correct Answers ✅- 1492 Christopher Columbus discovered the Americas > Europeans created colonies to draw economic benefits
- take enslaved people to work on plantations in the Americas
- it lasted for over 300 years
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Slaves - Correct Answers ✅-people who were regarded as the property of their masters -Africans were considered as inferior to white Europeans because of their skin colour and more modern society Why were slaves needed? - Correct Answers ✅European plantation owners needed workers on sugar, tobacco, cotton plantations Triangular Trade - Correct Answers ✅A three way system of trade during 1600-1800s -slaves taken from West Africa to Americas -Americas sent raw materials to Europe (London, Bristol, Liverpool) e.g. sugar, tobacco -Europe sent gun powder and rum to Africa