Answer:
Factors:
-The land was well suited for sugar plantations.
-Sugar was in high demand.
-Sugar was easy to load on ships and transport to Europe.
Not Factors:
-Portuguese laborers agreed to work in plantations only if sugar was grown.
-Sugar crops did not require hard labor.
-European traders had no experience trading with Africans.
Egyptians associated death with the west and buried their pharaohs on the Nile's west bank. Egyptians preferred to stay on the east bank of the Nile at night, because they believed the spirits of the dead lived on the west bank. Osiris was the god of the afterlife.
