Starter quiz

  • Which of the following countries had started building large empires across the Americas in the early 1500s?
    • Spain  ✓
    • France
    • Portugal  ✓
    • Italy
  • When the Portuguese began colonising the Americas, who was first used to work on the plantations?
    • mostly indigenous people  ✓
    • mostly enslaved people from West Africa
    • only European labourers
  • Which of the following are examples of goods Europeans would take to West Africa to trade for gold from the 1400s?
    • horses  ✓
    • enslaved people
    • guns  ✓
  • Which of the following is the best definition of chattel slavery?
    • when people become legal property for a set period of time
    • when people become legal property and cannot be freed without permission  ✓
    • when people become sign a contract to work for a given period
  • Which of the following is an example of a smaller kingdom along the coast of West Africa in the late 1500s?
    • Songahy
    • Kaabu  ✓
    • Mali
    • Benin
  • Which of the following explains why the Kingdom of Benin was different to some other kingdoms in West Africa, after the arrival of Portuguese merchants?
    • they were the only kingdom to collapse
    • they continued to thrive through peaceful relationships with the Portuguese  ✓
    • they became rich from trading enslaved people
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