The Portuguese used which technique to enter Eastern markets?

A) Exchange of silver from America

B) Carrying trade in spices

C) Military coercion

B. Carrying trace in spices.

Explanation:

By the time we, the Portuguese, got to India by sea, after Vasco da Gama found the way around the Cape of Good Hope, no one had reached America yet. That rules out option A.

Plus, we had nothing to gain from military coercion, as it is widely known that the Portuguese made a lot of money selling spices in Europe in the early days of the discovery age.

Most logical option would be B.

superior technology and improved medical knowledge to foster imperialism. quinine enabled europeans

to survive tropical diseases and venture into the mosquito-infested interiors of africa and asia. the combination

of the steamboat and the telegraph enabled the western powers to increase their mobility and to quickly respond

to any situations that threatened their dominance. the rapid-fire machine gun also gave them a military advantage

and was in convincing africans and asians to accept western control. the following table summarizes the

causes of the new imperialism:

causes of new imperialism

economic military/political humanitarian/religious technological

need for markets need for military bases white man’s burden new medicine

raw materials national security spread of christianity new weapons

source of investments source of

pride—nationalism

social darwinism

(superiority of western

society)

transportation

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