Systems of Slavery h 169- African kingdoms in the period from 1450 to
1750
(A) featured monarchs who ruled without
advisors
(B) frequently enslaved their own people
(C) like the Chinese, were not interested in
European trade goods
(D) ruled without the use of military units
(E) were involved in the slave trade before the
arrival of Europeans - Compared to the trans-Atlantic slave trade, that
of eastern Africa
(A) involved only European nations
(B) acquired slaves from coastal areas only
(C) did not involve central Africa
(D) became a model for European slave systems
(E) also involved the plantation system - Within Africa, the slave trade
(A) increased African dependence on European
nations
(B) decreased the value of women slaves
(C) had little effect on central African
kingdoms
(D) promoted unity among African kingdoms
(E) concentrated on western Africa - Historians searching for the earliest models
of European plantation slavery would need to
study
(A) plantation society on Indian Ocean islands
(B) the history of the Madeira and Canary
Islands
(C) sugar plantations in the West Indies
(D) cotton plantations in British North
America
(E) slavery among the Dutch in Cape Colony
5. The African slave trade
(A) had no ties to Middle Eastern trade
(B) was frequently the result of African rivalries
(C) was abolished by the Dutch in southern
Africa
(D) was limited to the Atlantic Ocean
(E) replaced trade in gold and ivory
6. The trans-Atlantic slave trade
(A) produced average mortality rates of over 50
percent along the Middle Passage
(B) carried the majority of slaves to North
America
(C) increased after the establishment of sugar
plantations
(D) was separate from triangular trade patterns
(E) carried more women than men
7. When the Portuguese first became involved in
the slave trade
(A) they were uninterested in Christianizing
African peoples
(B) they were interested primarily in gold and
spices
(C) they were amazed at the poverty of African
kingdoms
(D) they created the African slave trade
(E) they bypassed trade relations with sub-Saha-
ran Africa
8. Sugar plantations
(A) were initially founded in the Caribbean
(B) required fewer slaves than the cotton and
rice fields of North America
(C) were the ultimate destination of the first
Portuguese slaves
(D) especially valued slaves from western Africa
(E) competed with triangular trade
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