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How does the Transatlantic Slave Trade serve as the foundation for money in the western world?

a) People were used as money and their children as well as their labor was sold to create additional income.
b)Enslaved people were provided the first coin money as a reward for the labor they did outside of farming.
c) African kings sent gold with their prisoners of war as tribute for removing extra people.
d) Europeans paid so much money into the slave trading system they became millionaires in the process.

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Answer:

A. People were used as money and their children as well as their labor was sold to create additional income.

Step-by-step explanation:

Transatlantic slave trade refers to the period between 16th to the 19th centuries when African people were regularly captured by slave traders and being sold to various countries in European and American continent.

These slaves were sold mostly plantation in order to work for long hours without getting any form of payment. This make the plantation owners able to get high amount of income without having to spend much expenditures

Many of the traders target children's since they're the easiest to capture. Slave owners often purchase them since they're easily indoctrinated and can be 'trained' to be docile.

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