How did the Atlantic slave trade impact the development of the Americas? (Possible word bank: Columbian Exchange, Triangular Trade, Middle Passage,
plantation, slave trade, Mercantilism)

The slave trade brought enormous wealth to merchants and traders, and provided the labor that helped profitable colonial economies grow. Yet the impact on Africans was devastating. African states and societies were torn apart. The lives of individual Africans were either cut short or for- ever brutalized.

for this case we have the following equation:

we apply distributive property to the terms within parentheses.

subtracting 2 on both sides of the equation:

small european communities with shared traditions consolidated into large new states (apex)