Question

Which of the following correctly traces the profitable trade triangle of the 1500s and 1600s?

Answer 1

Answer:

Option: Europe to Africa to the West Indies to Europe

Explanation:

The triangular trade conducted between the three ports or regions engaged in transporting goods. Slavery, for the first time, became part of the trade. The trade route took goods including, guns, cotton cloth, tools, and utensils from Europe to Africa. From Africa, people taken as slaves to work in fields in the Americas and the West Indies. The New World, in return of slaves, gave raw materials produced on the plantations like tobacco, rice, indigo, sugar, rum, and cotton shipped back to Europe.