Well, it allowed them to garrison more troops there which led to an increase in slave commerce for the portugesse traders.
I believe it's A.) A means of communication. It depends on what you're using it for in a sentence. Hope this helps! :))
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Mummification is an old-fashioned method of preparing a dead body so that it doesn't decay. Mummification was commonly used in ancient Egypt, not so much these days.
The Phoenicians imported so much papyrus from Egypt that the Greeks used their name for the first great Phoenician port, Byblos, to refer to the ancient paper. The name Bible, or "the book," also derives from Byblos. Today, Spencer Wells says, "Phoenicians have become ghosts, a vanished civilization."
