Unit 10: Paper 3 — History of Africa and the Middle East (HL)
Topic 10.3: The African slave trade (1500–1900) Questions
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What crop most directly drove the demand for enslaved labour in Zanzibar and Pemba in the nineteenth century?
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Discuss the view that day-to-day resistance by enslaved Africans was more significant than open rebellion in undermining the slave trade.
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To what extent do you agree with the claim that the slave trade's social impact on Africa was more significant than its economic impact?
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To what extent do you agree that internal African warfare was a more important cause of the slave trade's growth than European or Middle Eastern demand?
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Which development from the 1760s onward reduced Britain's economic reliance on the transatlantic slave trade?
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Which African ruler wrote to the Portuguese crown in the early 16th century protesting the effects of the slave trade on his kingdom?
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In West African states such as Dahomey and the Niger Delta, what change accompanied the rise of legitimate commerce?
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Approximately how many people signed the British anti-slave-trade petition of 1792?
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What did the Slave Trade Act of 1824 specifically do?
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Evaluate the claim that European demand for plantation labour was the single most important cause of the growth of the Atlantic slave trade between 1500 and 1800.
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Discuss the view that African states and merchants bear as much responsibility for the growth of the Atlantic slave trade as European buyers.
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To what extent do you agree with the claim that the expansion of states such as Dahomey and Asante was the most significant impact of the slave trade on Africa?
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To what extent was the expansion of slavery in East Africa after the late 1700s driven more by Omani political ambition than by external factors such as British abolition?
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Evaluate the claim that African states were primarily victims of the slave trade rather than active beneficiaries of it.
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Evaluate the claim that the Atlantic slave trade fundamentally transformed slavery in Africa rather than simply exploiting a system that already existed.
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Evaluate the claim that the Atlantic and East African slave trades were essentially two separate, unconnected systems.
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What was the main effect of Britain's 1807 Slave Trade Act, according to the notes?
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From roughly what decade did European powers begin using 'anti-slavery' language to justify colonial conquest in Africa?
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Roughly what proportion of Atlantic captives were male, contributing to a lasting gender imbalance in affected regions?
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Which West African kingdom used profits and firearms from the slave trade to build a standing army and expand its power in the 18th century?
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