Chapter 17 Reading Quiz

The interactions described in the passages above are best understood in the context of

African kingdoms participating in the slave trade

The Songhay empire was unlike the empires of Ghana and Mali because they Songhay

Created a stronger central government to rule the empire

What would need to be added to the map to describe the main elements of the "triangular trade" that accompanied the Atlantic slave trade?

European manufactured goods going to Africa and American cash crops to Europe

Afonso's major complaint about slavery was that

Europeans were taking too many valuable young men as slaves

Based on the last sentence of this passage, which European ruler or thinker was Sunni Ali most like?

Louis XIV

In both passages, an African leader is attempting to

Regulate the slave trade so his kingdom could profit from it

Which statement about the Atlantic slave trade accurately adds important information to what the map shows

The journey across the Atlantic was a grueling one for the captives, and many died before reaching the Americas.

This map supports the conclusion about the Atlantic slave trade that the greatest number of slaves was sent

To Brazil and the Caribbean to work on sugar plantations