Starter quiz

  • 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?
    • Britain
    • Portugal  ✓
    • Spain
    • Germany
  • Which two of the following nations had started building large empires in the Americas in the 1500s?
    • Spain  ✓
    • Portugal  ✓
    • France
    • Germany
  • When the Portuguese first arrived in West Africa, they intended to trade their goods for ...
    • 'Gold' ✓
  • 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?
    • Transatlantic Slave Trade  ✓
    • Transatlantic Enslaved Trade
    • Triangular Atlantic Trade
    • Triangular Trade  ✓
  • How did the kingdom of Benin continue to thrive, despite their leaders refusing to sell their people to the European merchants to enslave?
    • they won wars against the Portuguese and Dutch
    • they established peaceful relationships with the European merchants  ✓
    • the European merchants could not reach the kingdom of Benin
  • When enslaved people were taken from West Africa by European merchants, which continent were they taken to?
    • 'The Americas' ✓
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