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The growth of inter-regional trade in luxury goods (silk and cotton textiles, porcelain, spices, precious metals and gems, slaves, exotic animals) was encouraged by significant innovations in previously existing transportation and commercial technologies--including caravanserai, compass use, the astrolabe, larger ship designs in sea travel--and new forms of credit and the development of money economies (Bills of exchange, Credit, Checks, Banking Houses, Use of Paper Money).
The death of the hostages.
The triangle stopped first at the the West Indies from Africa where most slaves were pulled off board, then sent on to ports such as New Orleans to be sold. In this context, the closest would be A.
B. Joseph Smith
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