Why did Portugal ship cloth, glass beads, and metal tools to West Africa during the early years of the Renaissance? A. These items were needed to help settlers create colonies in the Americas. B. These items were needed to barter with Muslim merchants in North Africa. C. They used these items to trade for slaves along the African coasts. D. They hoped these items would cause the native people of Africa to let them sail their shores.

C

Explanation:

These items were used by European traders for the purchase of African slaves. Many of these slaves were captives of tribal warfare between warring African tribes. These tribes traded their slaves to the Portuguese for manufactured goods, and the Portuguese took the slaves to the Americas to be sold to plantation owners.

states

explanation:

as the old saying goes, all politics are local. state and federal governments affect our daily lives in numerous ways. yet, in our federal system, there is supposed to be a balance between federal and state power. as james madison envisioned it in federalist no. 51, “the power surrendered by the people” would be “divided between two distinct governments,” creating a balance of power that would enable the “different governments [to] control each other.”

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