Place · sea
Atlantic Ocean
The Atlantic Ocean separates Europe and Africa from the Americas. From the fifteenth century it became the main highway of European colonial expansion, used by the Portuguese, Spanish, British and French empires. It carried the Atlantic slave trade, which transformed African states such as the Kongo, Oyo, Benin and Ashanti empires, and in antiquity it marked the outer limit of Punic voyages.
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