When the Portuguese Arrived in East Africa Around 1500, They

When the Portuguese arrived in East Africa around 1500, they

A) created a place for themselves in the marketplace by offering Africans goods from North America that they could not get elsewhere
B) had nothing to offer that the Africans valued, so began enforcing monopolies on certain items and taking over vital ports
C) were unable to gain a foothold in trade and so abandoned the effort
D) immediately conquered Mutapa to secure control of the gold supply