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Headings: Triangular Trade Routes
Triangular
 
Trade
 
Routes
 

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Content: Triangular Trade Routes
Triangular
 
Trade
 
Routes
 
The
 
Atlantic
 
Ocean
 
lies
 
between
 
the
 
Americas
 
and
 
the
 
continents
 
of
 
Europe
 
and
 
Africa. In
 
the
 
centuries
 
after
 
1492,
 
as
 
European
 
countries
 
conquered
 
land
 
in
 
the
 
Americas
 
and
 
created
 
overseas
 
colonies,
 
merchants
 
established
 
trade
 
routes
 
that
 
connected
 
all
 
three
 
continents
 
--
 
creating
 
what
 
became
 
known
 
as
 
the
 
Triangular
 
Trade. The
 
Atlantic
 
trade
 
routes
 
stretched
 
across
 
the
 
Atlantic
 
in
 
seemingly
 
all
 
directions. A
 
typical
 
shipment
 
of
 
goods
 
from
 
Europe
 
might
 
include
 
beads,
 
cloth,
 
rum,
 
salt,
 
or
 
weapons. The
 
shipment
 
would
 
go
 
to
 
Africa,
 
where
 
the
 
goods
 
would
 
be
 
traded
 
for
 
slaves. ship
 
leaving
 
Africa
 
for
 
America
 
would
 
have
 
hundreds
 
of
 
enslaved
 
people,
 
tightly
 
packed
 
in
 
horrific
 
conditions
 
for
 
the
 
journey
 
to
 
their
 
new
 
"home"
America. The
 
voyage
 
between
 
Africa
 
and
 
the
 
Americas
 
became
 
known
 
as
 
the
 
Middle
 
Passage. low
 
estimate
 
of
 
the
 
number
 
of
 
Africans
 
who
 
were
 
shipped
 
as
 
slaves
 
to
 
the
 
Americas
 
is
 
10
 
million. That
 
number
 
doesn't
 
include
 
the
 
thousands
 
who
 
died
 
along
 
the
 
way. Some
 
studies
 
have
 
concluded
 
that
 
15-25
 
of
 
every
 
100
 
Africans
 
died
 
on
 
those
 
voyages.