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1. Why did plantation owners begin to import African slaves to work their farms? (5 points)
a)They believed Africans would be more loyal to them because they were from another continent.
b)They could get more slaves from Africa for less money than they were currently paying.
c)They feared attacks from Native American slaves who were skilled warriors. d)They realized that people from Africa were more resistant to disease than Europeans were.
2. How were slaves used by the Maya and the Aztecs? (5 points)
a)Slaves could buy their freedom after serving for two years.
b)Slaves could work toward owning a portion of the land.
c)Slaves were not allowed to eat the crops they worked.
d) Slaves were sometimes used as a sacrifice to the gods.
3. Which of the following about slavery in ancient Rome is correct? (5 points) a)Both nobles and common people owned slaves in Rome.
b) Roman slaves were often paid according to their tasks.
c)Slaves in Rome were treated like family members.
d) The majority of military soldiers in Rome were slaves.
4. Which of the following describes the encomienda system set up by the Spanish? (5 points)
a) A system allowing landowners to grant portions of their land to the slaves who worked it after a certain amount of time had passed
b) A system that allowed officials to take care of Indians in exchange for labor, but often became enslavement
b) A system that imported African slaves to farm tobacco plantations in the North America
c)A system that rewarded certain Native American slaves who performed well by granting them pardons
5. Which of the following describes the Middle Passage of the triangular trade route? (5 points)
a)The transport of slaves from Africa to the Americas, during which nearly 20 percent of slaves died
b) The transport of manufactured goods from Europe to Africa, where they were traded for slaves
c) The transport of slaves from America to Europe, where they were traded for tobacco and sugar
d) The transport of goods from Africa to Europe, during which nearly 20 percent of sailors contracted smallpox
6. One triangular trade route moved slaves, rum, and goods between (5 points)
a)Central America, West Africa, and New England
b)New England, West Africa, and the Caribbean
c)South American, Europe, and East Africa
d) the Caribbean, the Mediterranean, and England
7. What might be the cargo of a ship moving from Europe to West Africa in the trans-Atlantic slave trade? (5 points)
a) Rum from the Caribbean
b) Slaves from the Caribbean
c) Manufactured goods from France
d) Tobacco from the Americas
8. How did the slave trade impact Africa? (5 points)
a) Despite population loss due to the slave trade, Africa became very powerful due to military protection and weapons received from Europe.
B) Because of trade negotiations through triangular trade, African leaders formed new political bonds with other nations and became super powers in the region.
c) Even though millions of Africans were enslaved, due to new crops that improved Africans’ health, the slave trade did not reduce the overall population of Africa.
d) Africa’s population decreased dramatically due to the number of slaves sold and forced to involuntarily migrate from Africa to the Americas.

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  1. Plantation owners begin to import African slaves to work their farms because they could get mor slaves from Africa for less money than they were currently paying (B). Before importing Afircan slaves the plantation owners had tried to used indians and indentured servants but it did not work. The indians leave dissapearing into the forests or die because of the hard work  while the indentured servants were people who offer to work in the plantation at the exchange of transportation, food and shelter by signing a contract. But the contract they signed was for some years only and the owners found it to be too short and often had a costly final payment attached to them. Besides indetured servants had some legal rights and the employers were forced to feed them adequately and keep them in good health.
  2. In the Mayan and Aztec culture the slaves could buy their freedom after serving for two years (A). I´m not quite sure if there was a minimun period but, they were offered the opportunity to buy freedom as well as own possessions.
  3. The statement that its correct about slavery in Rome is that both nobles and common people owned slaves (A). Slavery in Rome played an important role in society and the economic. Besides manual labors the slaves performed many domestic services and might be employed at highly skill jobs and professions. Accountants, physicians and doctors were often slaves.
  4. The best statement that defines the encomienda system is that was a system that allowed officials to take care of indians in exchange for labor, but often became enslavement (B). It was first established in Spain after the christian conquest of muslim territories but had it major apogee during the spanish colonization of America and the Philippines. It rewarded conquerors with the labor of particular groups of subject people.
  5. The Middle Passage of triangular route was the transport of slaves from Africa to the Americas, during which nearly 20 percent of slaves died (A). This took place after a trade between European manufactured goods and purchased or kidnapped africans. Then they were transported throughout the Atlantic ocean and sold or traded for raw materials in the New World.
  6. One triangular trade route moved slaves, rum and goods between New England, West Africa and the Caribbean (B). They take sugar from the Caribbean to New Englan where they distilled it to produced rum and with the proffits purchas manufacturated goods to send to West Africa in order to trade more slaves.
  7. Manufactured goods from France (C)
  8. The slave trade impact Africa by making it´s population dramatically decrease due to the number of slaves sold and forced to involuntary migrate from Africa to America (D).

  I hope that these answer are correct and help you. If you don´t like to read just look at the sentence in BOLD and there you´ll find the answers. Regards.

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