gold and slaves
The Portuguese set up trading posts along the west coast of Africa. Which items were bought and traded?
gold and slaves
gold and slaves . .
The Portuguese slave trade in Africa developed through the establishment of trading posts along the West African coast in the 15th century. They initially traded goods for enslaved Africans captured by local African rulers. As demand for enslaved labor in the Americas increased, the Portuguese expanded their trading networks and began raiding inland communities for slaves.
By building small forts and trading post's. from the West of Africa, they sailed arouond the continet, and continued to establlish forts and trading posts, but they also attacked coastal cities of East Africa, such as Mombasa and Malindi, which were hubs of international trade.
They traded for gold and ivory and established trading posts. Portuguese began buying slaves there as well.
Portugal began to establish trading posts in Africa in the early 1400s.
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A trading post is a place where people trade goods and stuff. In the 15th century trading posts were built by European traders along the coasts of Africa and Asia as a base for trade with the interior. Trading posts or 'Factories' were islands of European law and sovereignty, but European authority seldom extended very far beyond the fortified post.
Early Portuguese explorations were primarily driven by the desire to find new trade routes to Asia and spread Christianity. They established trading posts along the coast of Africa and expanded their influence in the Indian Ocean through explorers like Vasco da Gama. The Portuguese were the first Europeans to reach India by sea in 1498.
because that's where the trading was the Portuguese were not close to the Mediterranean and that where all the countries met up to trade. they needed to go around Africa to Asia.
A place where people meet to trade goods
Spain set up trading posts in Africa because they wanted to expand their control and set up a strong import/export business. At the same time Spain was colonizing Africa, Britain and the Dutch were as well. They had both created profitable trade businesses and Spain wanted the same success.