Prince Henry was known as one of the most enthusiastic supporters of portuguese exploration.
So, the answer is : A ) Prince Henry.
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The option is D.
The best example of this is colonial
India, where several famines happened under British Rule, being the
first major of it in 1770, in the region of Bengal, where about
a quarter or a third of the population starved to death in a ten-month
period, and East India Company's raising of taxes to farmers
disastrously coincided with this, exporting
the majority of the crops to Europe, and leaving poor most of the population that was employed in agriculture in that moment.