Because it is a lot of work and thinking.
<u>Answer: It began with Portuguese merchants buying slaves from the king of Benin.</u>
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Explanation: African slaves prior to 1441 were predominately Berbers and Arabs from the North African Barbary coast, known as ‘Moors” to the Iberian. They were typically enslaved during wars and conquests between Christian and Islamic kingdoms. The first expeditions of Sub-Saharan Africa were sent out by Prince Infante D. Henrique, known commonly today as Henry the Navigator, with the intent to probe how far the kingdoms of the Moors and their power reached. The expeditions sent by Henry came back with African slaves as a way to compensate for the expenses of their voyages. The enslavement of Africans was seen as a military campaign because the people that the Portuguese encountered were identified as Moorish and thus associated with Islam. The royal chronicler Gomes Eanes de Zurara was never decided on the “Moorishness” of the slaves brought back from Africa, due to a seeming lack of contact with Islam. Slavery in Portugal and the number of slaves expanded after the Portuguese began exploration of Sub-Saharan Africa.
Extra explanation: Explanation above is official recognized but there are a lot of evidence that slave trade started even 2nd century BC by the Roman Portugal and it proceded to: Visigothic and Suebi kingdoms, Islamic Iberia, and Reconquista. But she certainly didn't start with Portuguese merchants buying slaves from the king of Benin.
Answer:
The Berlin Blockade
Explanation:
The Berlin Blockade was one of the first crises we had at the start of the Cold War. During the occupation of Germany, the Soviets which was most likely assisted by their DDR (Eat Germany) puppet in denying the allies access to their zone of occupation within Berlin which was in East Germany. In response the Berlin Airlift started and on May 12, 1949 the blockade was lifted.
(The picture shows a map of occupied Germany. The Red is controlled by the Communist to show how easy it was for them to block access to Berlin [The yellow spot])
Hernando de Soto discovered the Mississippi River in 1541. Hope this helps! :)
The Potsdam Agreement was the August 1945 agreement between three of the Allies of World Wars 2, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the Soviet Union.
