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D. The United States buys 29% of India’s pharmaceutical exports, followed by Britain at 3%, South Africa at 2.5% and Russia at 2.4%. Laboratory analysis of the syrups exported to The Gambia found “unacceptable amounts of diethylene glycol and ethylene glycol as contaminants," according to the World Health Organization.
C. Nigeria.has 225 million people living in 574,002 square miles, compared with 2.4 million people in Gambia’s 4,362 square miles.
C. European ships took more than 12 million people from Africa to work as slaves in the Americas. About 1.8 million people died during the transatlantic voyages, and many perished soon after their arrival in North and South America and the Caribbean.
A. While the Portuguese were the first to buy slaves in what is now Gambia, the British controlled the trade there for most of the period. James Island at the mouth of the Gambia River was used to house slaves before being loaded onto ships. It was named after Britain’s King James II. But in 2011, it was renamed Kunta Kinteh Island after an enslaved Gambian ancestor of Alex Haley, U.S. author of Roots.