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technicaly the europeans were the first ,but to answer the question, africans were invovled with the triangular trade

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Who benifited the most from the triangular trade?

European colonial powers like Britain, France, and Portugal benefited the most from the triangular trade. They gained immense wealth through the trade of enslaved Africans, raw materials, and finished goods between Europe, Africa, and the Americas.


What statement describes the third and final leg of the triangular trade?

The third leg of the triangular trade involved the transportation of goods, including raw materials and manufactured goods, from Europe to Africa. These goods were then traded for enslaved Africans. The enslaved Africans were transported to the Americas to be sold as laborers on plantations.


Why do people call the slave trade the triangular trade?

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.


What did the triangle trade do to the slaves?

The triangular trade involved the transportation of slaves from Africa to the Americas to work on plantations. Slaves were subjected to inhumane treatment, harsh working conditions, and brutal punishments. Many lost their lives due to the difficult and brutal conditions they were forced to endure.


What crop in the triangular trade caused slavery?

The crop that primarily drove the transatlantic slave trade was sugar. The demand for sugar in Europe led to the establishment of large plantations in the Caribbean and the Americas, which required a large labor force to cultivate and harvest the crops, thus leading to the widespread use of African slave labor.

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What was each leg of the triangular trade known as?

The triangular trade route


Which continents were involved in the triangular trade?

The triangular trade was bettween North America, Europe, and Africa.


What was brought in the triangular trade?

Sugar, molasses, other crops, and slaves were traded in the Triangular Trade.


What year did the triangular trade start?

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.


What made the triangular trade important?

Triangular trade was important because it was useful. It was mosty trading in the from of a triangle.


Who did triangular trade benefit most?

who benefit most from triangular trade


How do you Describe every aspect of religion of the triangular trade?

There was no religion in the triangular trade. It was a shipping of goods and slaves.


How did the triangular trade changed the European slave trader's lives?

They probably have gotten something from the triangular trade.


How did the triangular trade affect the Colonial Planters?

The triangular trade affected colonial planters in a detrimental way. The triangular trade directed their products to South America, where prices were undercut.


Most inhuman aspect of the triangular trade was the?

The most inhuman part of the triangular trade was the middle passage, in which slaves were carried from Africa to the New World.


What is the first part of triangular trade?

THE OUTWARD trade


Who suffered the most from the triangular trade?

The slaves being carried from Africa to the Americas suffered the most from the triangular trade.