Question

The slave ships brought in weapons and fabric from Europe and sold them to Warlords and ___ in ports of africa. The slave traders in return sold the slave ship owners the captured men women and children. Industries in Europe depended on the ___ that the slaves produced in the European colonies in the Americas.

First blank: (slave traders, crew, locals)
Second blank: (raw materials, finished products, equipment)

Answer 1

Slave traders

Raw materials

Step-by-step explanation:

Answer 2

The words that would best fit the given blanks in the sentence would be "slave traders" and "raw materials." The American and European colonisers are mainly dependent on the raw materials supplied by the slaves during the brink of the Industrial Revolution which gave these empires a huge economical boost.