. Why did Portugal ship cloth, glass beads, and metal tools to West Africa during the early years of the Renaissance?
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They used these items to trade for slaves along the African coasts.

Explanation:

These items were used by European traders for the purchase of African slaves. Many of these slaves were captives of tribal warfare between warring African tribes. These tribes traded their slaves to the Portuguese for manufactured goods, and the Portuguese took the slaves to the Americas to be sold to plantation owners.

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