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After enslaved Native American laborers began to die due to exposure to disease, European powers began purchasing enslaved Africans, who became their primary labor source. Britain sent their first slave ships to the British West Indies to work on tobacco plantations and then later sugarcane plantations.
<span>The Roman Republic began to expand when Rome fought the Punic Wars and defeated
Carthage.
There were 3 Punic Wars. All wars was between Rome and Carthage. The First Punic war, Rome won. The second Punic war, Carthage won. The third and last Punic war, Rome won and its ultimate victory over Carthage enabled Rome to acquire the North African and Ibirian territories of Carthage.
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