Portugal Came to Dominate the Far East Spice Trade by Doing

Multiple Choice

Portugal came to dominate the Far East spice trade by doing all of the following EXCEPT:

A) sending trading fleets to India regularly.
B) blockading the mouth of the Red Sea.
C) blockading the Strait of Gibraltar.
D) establishing a series of forts along the west Indian coastline.
E) seizing Malacca,a well-known center for the spice trade on the Malay Peninsula.