Ineed1.who provided europeans with the africans to serve as slaves? *they hired arab soldiers to attack entire villages and round up all of the young men. *they fueled rivalries between tribes and suggested that tribal leaders to sell prisoners of war. *they began to look to other cultures--in india and asia--as a source for slaves. *they gradually abandoned the slave trade and went in search of another commodity. 2.how did european consumerism lead to the financial success of the triangle trade? *consumerism caused europeans to buy more indian and asian goods than they could use. *when europeans learned that enslaved africans were used to produce the goods they bought, they stopped buying. *european consumers first wanted cotton cloth and sugar, and then they wanted their own slave laborers. *the europeans' desire for the luxuries produced by slave labor made the slave trade very profitable. 3.why did the ming dynasty fund the great naval fleet? *the fleet was able to give jobs to many chinese peasants so they wouldn't rebel. *the ming dynasty wanted to impress its enemies with a show of military strength at ses. *the silk road had just closed, and a new trade route was needed. *the emperor wanted to gain control over bordering kingdoms and have them pay tribute. 4.the ming dynasty built large sailing vessels called junks to sail the pacific and indian oceans. these ships were much larger than anything built by the europeans. why did emperor zhu di build such large ships, and so many of them? *the chinese had unusual quantities of wood to use for building ships. *he wanted to show other nations that china was a very powerful and successful country. *smaller ships might collapse at sea, and fewer ships were more open to attack. *he planned to bring back thousands of slaves to work in the silk factories. 5.in 1571, the last major battle using wooden ships was fought between the holy roman and ottoman empires. how would the ottoman defeat at lepanto impact the empire? *the ottoman empire would recover with a larger, stronger navy. *the ottoman empire lost its chance to control the economy of western europe. *the ottoman empire would defeat the holy roman empire on land. *the ottoman empire had little use for a navy after lepanto. 6.the spanish silver mines of peru and bolivia flooded the old world with silver. how would the ottoman empire be influenced by new world silver? *silver from the new world would have a lesser value in the ottoman marketplace. *classes would break out between ottoman traders and european bankers over silver's value. *american silver caused inflation in the ottoman empire and ended its trade in chinese silver. *the silver mines of peru and bolivia would have little effect on the ottoman empire.