Question

1. What were factories? Why were
they named so?​

Answer 1

Answer:

Factories are the place where new things are made...

They named factories because so much work is done there...

Answer 2

the trading Centre set up by the European companies is called as factories .

they were called as factories not because anything was manufacture there but

because the officials of the companies were called factories.

OR

Europeans established their trading centres in different parts of the country, especially in the coastal areas. These centres were called 'factories'. It was so because the officials of the company were called 'factors'. Factories were base of company traders known at that time as factors operated