Because of pangea<span> we are certain that there was no land bridge. pangea was supercontinent that existed during the late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic eras. It assembled from earlier continental units approximately 300 million years ago, and it began to break apart about 175 million years ago.</span>
The slave trade was very detrimental to village life in west and central africa for mainly reasons, but mainly because slave catcher could come in at any time and tear a family apart.
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A less salty then the middle of the atlantic