Which of the following is true about the colonization of the Atlantic islands by the Portuguese?

A) The colonized the Canary and Madeira Islands.
B) ?They initiated a process of conquest and exploitation that would be repeated in the New World.
C) They established a brutal plantation system that relied on slave labor.
D) Slaves were taken from among the native population as well as from Africa.
E) ?All of these are correct.


E

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