Context: Following the Távora affair, the new Count of Oeiras knew no opposition. Made "Marquis of Pombal" in 1770, he effectively ruled Portugal until Joseph I's death in 1779. However, historians also argue that Pombal’s "enlightenment," while far-reaching, was primarily a mechanism for enhancing autocracy at the expense of individual liberty and especially an apparatus for crushing opposition, suppressing criticism, and furthering colonial economic exploitation as well as intensifying book censorship and consolidating personal control and profit.

Question: Was the new Count of Oeiras opposed by anyone after the Tavora affair?
Answer: knew no opposition

Question: In which year was the Count of Oeiras made the Marquis of Pambal?
Answer: 1770

Question: How long did the Marquis of Pombal rule Portugal?
Answer: until Joseph I's death in 1779

Question: What did Pombal's enlightenment promote at the expense of individual liberty?
Answer: autocracy

Question: What was Pombal's "enlightenment" an apparatus for?
Answer: crushing opposition, suppressing criticism, and furthering colonial economic exploitation