The correct answers are A, B, and E.
A. Many revolutions took years to accomplish.
Most of Latin American independence revolutions started around 1810, taking advantage of the Spanish political turmoil that started when the Spanish King, Fernando VII, was imprisoned by Napoleon, and they finished within the following decade or more.
B. European countries lost valuable lands.
Before the independence revolutions, Spain and Portugal owned most of the lands that form Latin America, and they lost these lands reach in natural resources in the hands of the new Latin American states.
E. Revolutionaries became heroes in their countries.
The leaders of the Latin American revolutions became heroes and the founding fathers of the new Latin American nations, like Simon Bolivar in Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, and Bolivia; Jose de San Martin in Argentina, Chile, and Peru; and the priests Miguel Hidalgo and Jose Maria Morelos in Mexico, to name just a few.
