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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.
When was A Greek Slave created?
A Greek Slave was created in 1898.
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.
