Starter quiz
- Which of the following countries had started building large empires across the Americas in the early 1500s?
- Spain ✓
- France
- Portugal ✓
- Italy
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- When the Portuguese began colonising the Americas, who was first used to work on the plantations?
- mostly indigenous people ✓
- mostly enslaved people from West Africa
- only European labourers
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- Which of the following are examples of goods Europeans would take to West Africa to trade for gold from the 1400s?
- horses ✓
- enslaved people
- guns ✓
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- Which of the following is the best definition of chattel slavery?
- when people become legal property for a set period of time
- when people become legal property and cannot be freed without permission ✓
- when people become sign a contract to work for a given period
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- Which of the following is an example of a smaller kingdom along the coast of West Africa in the late 1500s?
- Songahy
- Kaabu ✓
- Mali
- Benin
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- Which of the following explains why the Kingdom of Benin was different to some other kingdoms in West Africa, after the arrival of Portuguese merchants?
- they were the only kingdom to collapse
- they continued to thrive through peaceful relationships with the Portuguese ✓
- they became rich from trading enslaved people
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