Context: The company, which benefited from the imperial patronage, soon expanded its commercial trading operations, eclipsing the Portuguese Estado da Índia, which had established bases in Goa, Chittagong, and Bombay, which Portugal later ceded to England as part of the dowry of Catherine de Braganza. The East India Company also launched a joint attack with the Dutch United East India Company on Portuguese and Spanish ships off the coast of China, which helped secure their ports in China. The company established trading posts in Surat (1619), Madras (1639), Bombay (1668), and Calcutta (1690). By 1647, the company had 23 factories, each under the command of a factor or master merchant and governor if so chosen, and 90 employees in India. The major factories became the walled forts of Fort William in Bengal, Fort St George in Madras, and Bombay Castle.

Question: when was the bombay trading post established?
Answer: 1668

Question: who commanded the factories owned by the East India company?
Answer: factor or master merchant and governor

Question: how many employees were in the factories in India?
Answer: 90

Question: what were the walled forts of Fort William in Bengal, Fort St George in Madras and Bombay castle before they were forts?
Answer: major factories

Question: who helped join the East India company in a joint attack on Portuguese and Spanish ships?
Answer: Dutch

Question: by 1647 how many factories did the company have?
Answer: 23

Question: the east india company changed how it did business by moving from  focusing on royal patronage to what type of business?
Answer: commercial trading operations

Question: when the east india company move to commercial  trading what  company did they surpass?
Answer: Portuguese Estado da Índia

Question: The top or most important factories had what  physical feature in  common?
Answer: walled forts

Question: When was the Bombay trading post destroyed?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: How many factories did the company lose by 1647?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: Who commanded the factories owned by the North India company?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: How many fish were in the factories in India?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: Who helped join the North India company in a joint attack on Portuguese and German ships?
Answer: Unanswerable