Portuguese Trading Posts Along the Western Coast of Africa Were

question 119

Multiple Choice

Portuguese trading posts along the western coast of Africa were called factories because

• A) the merchants were known as factors.
• B) the trading posts made luxury products there in makeshift factories.
• C) the African slaves built factories along the coast to manufacture guns.
• D) the slave traders called their system a labor factory.
• E) that is how the local Africans translated "trading post."

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