the eurpeans benafited fron the triangular trade
technicaly the europeans were the first ,but to answer the question, africans were invovled with the triangular trade
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The reason it was called this was because of the trade route used for slavery. Ships went to Africa to pick up slaves from local tribes then travelled to America to sell the slaves to plantation where they picked up crops such as tobacco & sugar, then crossed the Atlantic again to sell the goods in London. If you plot these 3 countries and the route travelled on a map you create a triangle. Hence the Golden Triangle or triangle trade route.
in the 1400s it controlled trade and the trade of salt and gold in West Africa
African merchants contributed to the Atlantic slave trade development by serving as middle men. They also created new slave trade routes to avoid rulers who were opposed to the slave trade.
who benefit most from triangular trade
The slaves being carried from Africa to the Americas suffered the most from the triangular trade.
The most inhuman part of the triangular trade was the middle passage, in which slaves were carried from Africa to the New World.
The most historically significant triangular trade was the transatlantic slave trade which operated between Europe, Africa and the Americas from the 16th to 19th centuries.
the Europeans benefited most from the triangular trade because the enslaved the Africans and got the money and merchandise
the middle passage
the middle passage
The ship's owners made the most profit.
The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
The triangular trade route
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Triangular trade