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Effects Of The Triangular Trade

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The triangular trade is what the patterns in the map represent. Slave trade was essential to the development of the triangular trade. During the slave trade, Africans were shipped from Africa to the America and were used for manual labor on plantation fields.
One effect of the triangular trade was that Europe benefitted economically, politically, and culturally. Economically they made a huge profit off of the slave trade, ports grew which boosted the shipping industry, and they received raw materials like cotton and tobacco. Most of the money made from the slave trade contributed to the Industrial Revolution. Europe gained African culture like religion, ideas, music, and food. Politically new laws were created. Overall Europe gained world

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