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The author makes assumptions about each institution and its involvement in slavery.
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The correct answer is A) A country that has little fertile soil.
A country with a small amount of fertile soil is extremely limited in the food/crops they can grow. With this in mind, this country would need to be depend on trade with another country in order to survive. Without this other country helping, the country with a little fertile soil would struggle mightly to survive.
It was the "steel" industry that benefited most from the Bessemer process. Process involved impurities that could be removed from steel more easily.