What were the 3 parts of the Trans Atlantic trade?
Mercantilism led to the emergence of what’s been called the “triangular trade”: a system of exchange in which Europe supplied Africa and the Americas with finished goods, the Americas supplied Europe and Africa with raw materials, and Africa supplied the Americas with enslaved laborers.
What contributed to the Trans Atlantic trade?
Ivory, gold and other trade resources attracted Europeans to West Africa. As demand for cheap labour to work on plantations in the Americas grew, people enslaved in West Africa became the most valuable ‘commodity’ for European traders.
What were five things that were transported across the Atlantic as part of the triangular trade?
It was the second of three stages of the so-called triangular trade, in which arms, textiles, and wine were shipped from Europe to Africa, enslaved people from Africa to the Americas, and sugar and coffee from the Americas to Europe.
What was the main item of trade from Africa to America during the Trans Atlantic trade?
A segment of the global slave trade, the transatlantic slave trade transported between 10 million and 12 million enslaved Black Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas from the 16th to the 19th century.
What were the three main items traded during the triangular trade?
transatlantic slave trade
… three stages of the so-called triangular trade, in which arms, textiles, and wine were shipped from Europe to Africa, enslaved people from Africa to the Americas, and sugar and coffee from the Americas to Europe.
What 3 factors led up to and fueled the triangular trade?
The most important factors fueling the trade was Europe’s desire for raw materials and the need of people in the Americas for labor.
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