Many of the concerns raised by anti-federalists were about giving the government too much centralized power, as well as its lack of protections of the rights of citizens (which were laid out in the Bill of Rights and subsequent amendments)
The high technology in the ships of the Portuguese gave them an advantage over other countries, becoming the most powerful navigators during those two centuries. Portuguese trading focused mainly on obtaining gold, ivory, and pepper; but in addition to these products, so prized in Europe, it is estimated that more than 175,000 slaves were also carried on Portuguese ships to Europe and the Americas in the greatest migration of people during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
The correct answer is that they granted economic freedoms but not political freedoms. This means that they opened up a bit and became a bit more capitalist, but political freedoms were still forbidden and people would not be able to protest certain things or say certain things out loud or speak against the government and its choices.
