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The expansion of the Transatlantic Slave Trade

The starter and exit quiz of the lesson “The expansion of the Transatlantic Slave Trade”, from the unit “Transatlantic Slavery: how were West African societies impacted?” (Year 8 History) by Oak National Academy.

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12 questions

  1. Which European nation was the first to arrive on the West African coast in the 1400s and began to trade enslaved people from the 1500s?
  2. Which **two** of the following nations had started building large empires in the Americas in the 1500s?
  3. When the Portuguese first arrived in West Africa, they intended to trade their goods for ...
  4. Which **two** of the following are names given for the three-point trade between Europe, West Africa and the Americas, that involved the trade of enslaved people?
  5. How did the kingdom of Benin continue to thrive, despite their leaders refusing to sell their people to the European merchants to enslave?
  6. When enslaved people were taken from West Africa by European merchants, which continent were they taken to?
  7. By 1600, how many people had the Portuguese sold into slavery in the Americas?
  8. Which **one** of the following is the best defintion of an 'Oba'?
  9. Match each word to the correct definition
  10. Which **one** of the following explains why the Transatlantic Slave Trade continued to expand even though the Obas of Benin refused to trade enslaved people?
  11. Who took control of Elmina castle in 1637?
  12. Which **two** of the following best explains why kingdoms in West Africa suffered as a result of competing European merchants?

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