Question

Which consequence is intentional?

A) Some sailors and conquistadors have smallpox. They come in contact with Native Americans who contract the disease and die after infecting their relatives and neighbors.
B) Affluent Europeans buy sugar from merchants in European cities. Millions of people in Africa are kidnapped by African slave traders and sold to European sugarcane planters in the Caribbean.
C) Europeans take corn to Africa. Corn becomes an important crop there.

Answer 1

Answer: It's actually C. Europeans take corn to Africa. Corn becomes an important crop there.

Explanation: I took the quiz on K12 and my answer was right!

Answer 2

B) Affluent Europeans buy sugar from merchants in European cities. Millions of people in Africa are kidnapped by African slave traders and sold to European sugarcane planters in the Caribbean.

Step-by-step explanation:

A consequence is regarded as 'intentional' if the people involved foreseen the consequences of their action.

In option B, many slave traders observed that many Rich Europeans buy sugar from the merchant when they are in European cities.

Seeing this , They foresee an opportunity to profit from this situation. They know that they if they can provide a form of cheap labors for the Europeans, the Europeans will definitely buy them since it can cut down their operational cost in the plantation.

So, they Kidnap people from different continent and offer them as slaves. The slave traders in this situation intentionally conducted the slaves because of economic prediction that is fully intentional.