Answer:
a. They found fertile soil, which they used to grow a variety of crops.
Explanation:
The British Empire began to take shape at the beginning of the 17th century, through the establishment of the Jamestown colony in 1607, in Virginia by England, which would be the beginning of the Thirteen Colonies in North America, which were the origin of the United States as well as the maritime provinces of Canada. There was also the colonization of small islands in the Caribbean Sea such as Jamaica and Barbados.
In these newly discovered lands, they found fertile soil, which they used to grow a variety of crops. The sugar-producing colonies of the Caribbean, where slavery became the basis of the economy, were the most important and lucrative colonies for England. The American colonies produced tobacco, cotton, and rice in the south, naval material and animal skins in the north.
