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That was the Portuguese.
Portugal is noted as the first modern European country to have large numbers of black slaves. As one of the major sea powers of the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries, Portugal also shipped and sold large numbers of African slaves to other parts of the world. In the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, Portugal enslaved captured Muslims as Christians engaged in the Reconquista.
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Who benefitted from the slave trade?
the white men benifitted, slave owners
Why did many greeks become traders and sailors?
Many ancient Greeks became traders because unless you were rich or a slave there was no other job opportunity and sailors because their lives were dependent and surrounded by the sea and so this was an expected career for them.
Was Hermes a slave to Zeus or Charon a slave to Hades?
Hermes was the son of Zeus, so I doubt he was a slave. Answer 2: And Charon worked for money, he was not a slave.
Where did the Greeks obtain their slaves?
Initially they enslaved their own people who fell into debt and could not repay it, so they took them as payment; also criminals.. Conquests gave soldiers and civilians as war booty, and slave traders brought other who had special abilities'attractions.
When was A Greek Slave created?
A Greek Slave was created in 1898.
Where did west africans slave traders get their slaves to sell to European?
From slave traders in central Africa.
Why did European slave traders come to West Africa?
European slave traders come to West Africa because they were free as others.
What was the common way for European slave traders to find slaves in Africa?
They were purchased by African Slave Traders
The first European slave traders were?
England
What was the most common way for European slave traders to find slaves in Africa?
They were purchased by African Slave Traders
The most common way for European slave traders to find slaves in Africa was by?
establishing trade relationships with local tribal leaders to acquire slaves through raids, warfare, or through the capture and selling of prisoners of war.
The most common way for European slave traders to find slaves in Africa?
buying them for African slave traders
What was the most common way for European slave traders to acquire slaves to bring to the Americas?
by buying them from African slave traders
Why did European traders have slave forts?
they had slave forts because the economy was to good to get anything else
How did the west African slave traders usually obtain they sold to European?
The slaves that West African slave traders sold to Europeans were usually captured in war.
How did west African slave traders usually obtain the slave they sold to European?
The slaves that West African slave traders sold to Europeans were usually captured in war.
Which European nations were the biggest slave traders?
There are many European nations that were considered to be the biggest slave trader. France, Germany and Portugal are top on that list.
