How did the Portuguese government originally make its trading fortune?

a) by monopolizing the spice trade to Europe
b) by cornering the New World silver market
Consider This: The Portuguese were traveling around Africa and to Asia for nearly 50 years before Christopher Columbus’s first voyage. See 8.5: Narrative: The King and the Cariocas.
c) by forcing all African slaving ships to stop and pay customs at Angola
Consider This: The Portuguese were traveling around Africa and to Asia for nearly 50 years before Christopher Columbus’s first voyage. See 8.5: Narrative: The King and the Cariocas.
d) by seizing all the poppy imports from the Ottomans
Consider This: The Portuguese were traveling around Africa and to Asia for nearly 50 years before Christopher Columbus’s first voyage. See 8.5: Narrative: The King and the Cariocas.


a) by monopolizing the spice trade to Europe

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