The correct answer is by building small forts and trading post.
<em>The Portuguese established footholds in on the African coastlines by building small forts and trading post.
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After Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama reached the Cape of Good Hope and get to India to collect a ship cargo of Pepper, the Portuguese built forts and trading post in the west and east to help their ships during the long sailings. There were ports in Africa, in India, in China, and in Japan. This way, Portugal benefited more doing this than establishing permanent colonies, in its attempt to strengthen its spices trade.
Since the other person answered the first question quite well, I'll answer the second one for you.
The Catholic church supported education only when it benefited the church. Only the teachings of the church were to be learned, and were often quite forceful about it, sometimes to the point of killing the people of conquered lands that they wished to share their teachings with.
The correct answer is D. While the rich benefitted the poor often caught the bad end of things.
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