Question

C. Short Answer Type Questions.
1. What were factories? Why were they called so?​

Answer 1

Answer:

The factories consisted of offices and go down . Most of them also had houses of officials and residential quarters for merchants and traders . The factories were called so because the officials of the company were called as factors.

Answer 2

The trading centres set up by the European companies were known as factories. There were called factories not because anything was manufactured there but because the officials of the companies were called factors.