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Point 1: Please read Chapter Seventeen in World in the Making. Please answer one of two the following questions in a comprehensive essay. Your essay should be approximately 600-800 words in length. For those that have completed Response Paper One, please review any suggestions that may have been given in the evaluation of your work. There is also a bonus question that can be completed based on a video assignment concerning Africa and the slave trade.Chapter Sixteen begins with a discussion of "Many Western Africas". In what ways did western Africa develop in the medieval period of history? In what ways did western Africa interact with the rest of the globe prior to the establishment of the Atlantic Slave Trade? In your essay you will wish to discuss concept of a paramount chief, the spread of Islam after 700 C.E., the rise of kingdoms such as the Songhai Empire, and the types of goods (salt, metals) that were traded within western Africa

Question 1: Discussion of "Many Western Africas". In what ways did western Africa develop in the medieval period of history? In what ways did western Africa interact with the rest of the globe prior to the establishment of the Atlantic Slave Trade? In your essay you will wish to discuss concept of a paramount chief, the spread of Islam after 700 C.E., the rise of kingdoms such as the Songhai Empire, and the types of goods (salt, metals) that were traded within western Africa (Pages 604-619)

Question 2: In what ways did the early slave trade begun by Portugal in western Africa function? How did the slave trade increase in scale and brutality with the arrival of other European powers into the Atlantic Slave Trade after 1600? In your essay you will wish to discuss how the Kingdom of Kongo interacted with the Portuguese (pomberios), the uses of monopoly trading companies, the brutality of the Middle Passage, and the writings of Olaudah Equiano.