2. what was one main reason why slave trading greatly expanded being around the 1500s?
a. africans gave up trying to resist capture by euopean slave traders.
b. euopeans started depending on slaves for free labor in new colonies.
c. europeans needed more slaves and their countries to manage the arrival of new colional goods.
d. arab merchants expanded the slave trade into south and east asia.
3. which statement best describe third and final leg of the triangular trade?
a. american goods were sold in europe.
b. enslaved africans we're sold in the americas.
c. european goods were sold in africa.
d. european profits were used to buy plantations in the americas.

The answer to question 2 is B: Europeans started depending on slaves for free labor in new colonies. The new colonies that some European countries were starting to develop were, in fact, a main reason for the African slave trade. In America, for instance, laborers were very expensive to hire and the indigenous population had been decimated, so the British colonizers resorted to Africa - where slavery was a traditional practice, it must be said - in search of cheap labor that could work in the profitable plantations.

The answer to question 3 is A: American goods were sold in Europe. The Triangular Trade consisted of three stages. The first one involved taking manufactured goods from Europe to Africa. The second stage entailed sending slaves to the Americas. Finally, during the third or final stage, the goods that had been produced thanks to slave-labor in the plantations returned to and were sold in Europe.      

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