Before the Portuguese Arrived in Africa

question 34

Multiple Choice

Before the Portuguese arrived in Africa,

• A) African and Arab merchants were already engaged in a lucrative slave trade.
• B) they established sugar plantations in the Caribbean.
• C) they signed the Treaty of Tordesillas with Spain.
• D) conflicts between Arab and African slave merchants were common.
• E) Spain controlled the water route to India.

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