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similar economic policies in Portugal. He abolished slavery in Portugal and in the
Portuguese colonies in India; reorganized the army and the navy; restructured the University
of Coimbra, and ended discrimination against different Christian sects in Portugal.
But Sebastião de Melo's greatest reforms were economic and financial, with the creation of
several companies and guilds to regulate every commercial activity. He demarcated the region
for production of Port to ensure the wine's quality, and this was the first attempt to control
wine quality and production in Europe. He ruled with a strong hand by imposing strict law
upon all classes of Portuguese society from the high nobility to the poorest working class,
along with a widespread review of the country's tax system. These reforms gained him
enemies in the upper classes, especially among the high nobility, who despised him as a social
upstart.
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