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list developments in the european slave trade in correct chronological order.
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europeans took enslaved africans to the americas to work growing crops.
portuguese merchants sent enslaved africans to portuguese islands in the atlantic to harvest sugarcane.
portuguese merchants took enslaved africans to portugal to work as laborers.

Explanation:

1. The earliest development was Portuguese merchants bringing enslaved Africans directly to Portugal for labor, starting in the mid-1400s.
2. Next, in the 1480s-1490s, Portuguese merchants sent enslaved Africans to Atlantic islands (like Madeira) to work sugarcane plantations, testing the plantation model.
3. Finally, after the discovery and colonization of the Americas starting in 1492, Europeans began transporting enslaved Africans to the Americas to work on large crop plantations, which expanded into the full transatlantic slave trade.

Answer:

1. Portuguese merchants took enslaved Africans to Portugal to work as laborers.
2. Portuguese merchants sent enslaved Africans to Portuguese islands in the Atlantic to harvest sugarcane.
3. Europeans took enslaved Africans to the Americas to work growing crops.