Answer:
The correct answer is A. According to the map, Africans traded slaves and gold to the Thirteen Colonies in exchange for iron products. This situation was part of the triangular trade.
Explanation:
The triangular trade was a commercial route established in the Atlantic Ocean from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century, so it can be considered a long-standing historical phenomenon. Its denomination is due to the fact that, on the map, it traced a figure similar to a triangle, involving three continents.
It was created by Portugal when seizing the Gulf of Guinea in the 15th century. It began with the departure from Western Europe (Portugal, France, England and the Netherlands) with manufactures or supplies of all kinds. It was rescaled on the west coast of Africa, between the Senegal and Congo rivers, centered in the area generically known as Guinea, where some minor products (jingle bells, mirrors, colored beads, low quality fabrics) could serve for the exchange. The products that were loaded there were gold and black slaves, whose trade and supply, through continuous wars, was encouraged by elites and local merchants. The next stop was the islands of the Antilles and the American coast, where slaves and most European goods were sold, and colonial products (sugar, tobacco, cocoa) and precious metals were loaded back into Europe.
