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"The question as to who, and what, is responsible for African underdevelopment can be answered at two levels. Firstly, the answer is that the operation of the imperialist system bears major responsibility for African economic retardation by draining African wealth and by making it impossible to develop more rapidly the resources of the continent. Secondly, one has to deal with those who manipulate the system and those who are either agents or unwitting accomplices of the said system. The capitalists of Western Europe were the ones who actively extended their exploitation from inside Europe to cover the whole of Africa."
Walter Rodney, historian, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, 1974
Which of the following best explains the importance of trading contacts with Europeans for Sub-Saharan Africans in the period 1450 to 1750 C.E.?

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history

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  1. Sub-Saharan Africans consolidated new states and kingdoms by trading with the Europeans for firearms.
  2. Sub-Saharan Africans relied on trading contacts with Europeans to circumvent the Arab slave trade.
  3. Sub-Saharan Africans depended on European merchants as the sole purchasers of slaves.
  4. Sub-Saharan Africans established significant economic advantage by trading indigenous resources for European goods.
  5. Sub-Saharan Africans developed a dependency on European goods, leading to a collapse of local industries.
  6. Sub-Saharan Africans used European trading contacts to gain access to European education and religion.
  7. Sub-Saharan Africans relied on European merchants to sustain population growth through the constant importation of New World foodstuffs.
  8. Sub-Saharan Africans allied with European powers to evict Muslim and Arab merchant princes from encroaching on their sovereignty.
  9. Sub-Saharan Africans utilized trading contacts with Europeans to spread their cultural influence throughout Europe.
  10. Sub-Saharan Africans engaged in trade with Europeans to acquire new agricultural techniques.

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