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 the goods 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 Africans translated “trading post.”
a.the merchants were known as factors.
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