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Describe how you think Africa would look if there had never been European slave trade. Explain the effects

European slave trade had on the continent of Africa and its citizens.
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Step-by-step explanation:

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We can solve this problem in two steps, one being Comprehending, and the other being Writing. I'll start off with the Comprehending/History part.

Comprehending

When the Europeans came to Africa, the only reason they could take over and be in power was due to the lack of development in that continent.

They had wars using the same weapons but really didn't have any reason to make better tools, armor, etc.

Due to this, when compared to the Europeans, we saw that they were super under-geared due to the Europeans developing more newer and more powerful things.

Now that they are more powerful, one thing that the Europeans had that the Africans didn't have was guns, and the Africans were willing to do things to get guns.

It only worked because if the Europeans gave one tribe guns, other tribes also wanted guns because they also needed guns if they wanted to have a chance fighting the other tribes.

So then due to their need of guns, they starter bringing people to the Europeans and then the Europeans designated them as slaves.

Now that we know why they could take over, we can see what happened if they hadn't taken over:

Writing

For the writing part, we can just image everything if all the things shown above didn't ever happen, like the slave taking, gun's existing on the planet, and the greed over there.

Here is a paragraph that I wrote based on this topic.

"If the Europeans had never landed on Africa and had never made contact with the Africans, their lives and how their society would work would be different. For example. one change would be that there would be no guns and other things that one tribe had and another didn't, meaning that there was no real structure based on the European goods you had. Due to this, we can say that without European interference, the social structure, who was in power, and who got taken away would be different. Another thing that would've changed was the health sector. You see that when the Europeans arrived, they brang along a ton of diseases that the Europeans were immune to due to their antibodies, but the Africans had never seen such a disease and were wiped out."

Fun Fact

One thing that happened is that the Africans saw their leaders as true fighters and their Princes and Kings sometimes even went into battle risking their lives. One day, an African Prince got captured and he and his men were going away on a slave ship. They had to keep away the Prince from the normal people as the normal people got inspired by him and were revolting.

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