History chap 16

According to the map titled the slave trade the British imported approximately how many slaves to their colony

2.1 million

And increase in business activity due to colonization caused which of the following

A new class of wealthier merchants emerged in Europe

In the passage by Olaudah Equiano he describes

A slave ship

According to the map titled the slave trade the greatest number of African slaves were taken to

Brazil

The passage by Charles D'Avenant justifies what

Colonization

Planters in the Americas begin to use African slaves for labor because

Disease killed millions of native Americans

What best describes the food exchange between Europe and the Americas

Europeans brought wheat sugar and sheep tot he Americas and took corn potatoes and turkeys to Europe

Scholars estimate that how much of all food crops grown around the world today are of American origin

One third

Mercantilist would advocate a nation to do which of the following

Sells more goods than it buys from a foreign country

What was an effect of the Columbian exchange

The exchange of food had a dramatic impact on later societies

During the rise of capitalism European investors willingly took the risk of investing in overseas trade because

The rising demand for goods drove price is higher

According to the map titled the slave trade where were most slaves forts located

The west coast of Africa

The Spanish use captive Africans as

Workers on Caribbean sugar plantations