Discuss the factors that motivated the Portuguese to settle along East African Coast in 16th Century

      

Discuss the factors that motivated the Portuguese to settle along East African Coast in 16th Century

  

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Francis
-Climate was conducive to the portuguese men.
-Available natural harbours for their ships.
-They wanted to take control over theeast africa coast so as to use it as a strategic base.
-They wanted to capture sofala gold trade.
-They had an aim of preventing the egyptians and the turks from obtaining support from east africa coast incase of wars.
franco crick answered the question on March 2, 2018 at 06:39


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