Multiple choice general knowledge history

During the Mughal period, which one of the following were the first to come to India as traders

  1. Portuguese

  2. Dutch

  3. Danish

  4. English
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The Portuguese were the first Europeans to arrive in India as traders during the early 16th century. Vasco da Gama reached Calicut in 1498, and the Portuguese established their first trading post at Cochin in 1503. This was before the Mughal Empire was firmly established in India. The Dutch (1605), Danish (1616), and English (1600) came later.

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