Before the Portuguese arrived in Africa,
A) African and Arab merchants were already engaged in a lucrative slave trade.
B) they established sugar plantations in the Caribbean.
C) they signed the Treaty of Tordesillas with Spain.
D) conflicts between Arab and African slave merchants were common.
E) Spain controlled the water route to India.

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Historically, Africa and Arab merchants had been engaged in slave trade long before the Portuguese arrived. The Portuguese merely expanded the magnitude and geographic scope of the African slave trade for economic gain.

Before the Portuguese Arrived in Africa