Answer:
raw materials and weapons
Explanation:
The triangular trade was a commercial route that was 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.
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 the exception of Spain since the promulgation of the laws of Burgos in 1512, it prohibited the slave trade until the 18th century when, with the liberalization of the port trade with Las Americas by Carlos III, Spain joined the triangular trade) 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 products (sometimes called quincalla: jingle bells, mirrors, colored beads, low quality fabrics) could serve for the exchange. The product that was loaded there was 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 or 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.
The technical possibility of this route was based on the cellular circulation of ocean currents and winds around the anticyclone of the Azores (trade winds, Gulf Stream). Its establishment was only possible after the geographical discoveries of the late fifteenth century.
The maintenance of this commercial relationship had far-reaching consequences for the differential economic development of the three affected areas, as it is a clear example of colonial trade, in which the metropolis is benefited by the added value of its industrial production and the colony, whether it is formally subject or not to the mechanism called the colonial pact, it functions as a captive market. Especially damaging was the slavery for Africa, plunging it into several centuries of economic backwardness and political disorganization that continued with the formal colonization in the so-called African division of the 19th century once the slave trade was abolished internationally, and it was not even remedied after the decolonization of the twentieth century.
