Unit 21: Paper 3 (HL) — History of Africa & the Middle East
Topic 21.7: The slave trade in Africa and the Middle East (1500-1900) Questions
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Choose the correct answer: In which year did Sultan Seyyid Said move the Omani capital to Zanzibar?
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Discuss the role played by chartered trading companies and state-licensed systems in the growth of the Atlantic slave trade.
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To what extent was economic self-interest, rather than humanitarian conviction, the main reason for the decline of the Atlantic slave trade?
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Evaluate the impact of the 1807 Slave Trade Act and the 1833 Abolition of Slavery Act on the ending of slavery in the British Empire.
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Analyse the relationship between anti-slavery legislation and European colonial expansion in Africa in the nineteenth century.
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Examine the reasons for the decline of the East African slave trade in the second half of the nineteenth century.
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Evaluate the claim that economic factors were more important than moral factors in ending the East African slave trade.
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Examine the reasons why warfare between African states contributed to the growth of the slave trade.
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Analyse the social consequences of the slave trade for the societies that supplied enslaved people.
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Evaluate the significance of Sultan Seyyid Said in the growth of the East African slave trade.
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Compare and contrast the causes of the Atlantic slave trade and the East African slave trade.
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Examine the reasons for the growth of the Atlantic slave trade between 1500 and 1800.
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Evaluate the reasons for the expansion of the East African slave trade in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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Discuss the view that African rulers and states were as responsible for the growth of the slave trade as European and Middle Eastern powers.
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Examine the reasons for the decline of the Atlantic slave trade in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
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To what extent was the ban on the Atlantic slave trade in 1807 responsible for the expansion of the East African slave trade?
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Discuss the role of individuals in ending the Atlantic and East African slave trades.
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Examine the economic and social impact of the slave trade on the societies involved.
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Compare and contrast the reasons for the decline of the Atlantic slave trade with the reasons for the decline of the East African slave trade in the nineteenth century.
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Discuss the reasons why the East African slave trade continued for decades after the Atlantic slave trade had been suppressed.
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