Triangle Trade
Ships would depart the Americas loaded with this and go to Europe.
What are raw materials?
Up to 30% of the total population was enslaved, mostly made up of conquered peoples used for sport, such as gladiator fights
What is Ancient Rome?
He is the main character of the book Things Fall Apart.
Who is Okonkwo?
The part of the population that traders would look to take west as part of the Triangular Trade.
What is mostly young men with some young?
Ships that would depart Africa would go to the Americas through this.
What is the Middle Passage?
Here was the world’s first true “slave society” - the majority of the economy was dependent on slave labor
A. Greece
B. Roman
C. Babylon
What is Ancient Greece?
The discovery of efficient waterways through the desire to cut out middlemen in the Middle East eventually led to the closure of this as a major trade route.
What is the Silk Road?
Looking to gain more guns and ammunition, tribal leaders in Africa would begin to sell this part of the population to European traders.
Slaves were bartered for these items in the Americas.
What are raw materials?
The oldest known written reference of slavery is found in this code of 1754 BC.
What is the Hammurabi Code
Over the period of the Atlantic Slave Trade, from approximately 1526 to 1867, some 12.5 million slaves had been shipped from Africa, and 10.7 million had arrived here.
Where are the Americas?
Africans stay in a constant flux of____ between factions vying for control that continues today.
What is war?
Europeans would do this with the raw materials garnered through the Triangle Trade.
What is make finished products?
“War produced not only spoils such as gold but also people to take as slaves which eventually also became a form of _____ symbol. The more slaves you had, the wealthier and more influential you were.”
What is status?
This caused the ever-increasing demand for slaves in the New World.
What is the need for laborers to plant and harvest raw goods in warmer climates?
Name the country that recently signed a peace treaty with Rwanda.
What is the Congo?
European ships would sail to Africa carrying iron products, clothing, trinkets and beads, guns, and ammunition that would be traded to purchase these three items.
What are slaves, gold, and spices?
Larger workforces needed to help with agriculture (food production) and other labor-intensive work created an ____ necessity among earlier civilizations, resulting in the taking and using of slave labor.
(Hint: The word starts with an "E.")
What is economic necessity?