The answer is
C. The customers lost their money.
Answer:
6000 years ago
We believe Sumerian civilization first took form in southern Mesopotamia around 4000 BCE—or 6000 years ago—which would make it the first urban civilization in the region. Mesopotamians are noted for developing one of the first written scripts around 3000 BCE: wedge-shaped marks pressed into clay tablets.
It might be said that European explorers wanted "to find a trade route from the Atlantic to the Pacific ocean (Northwest Passage). The first ones who looked for it were John Cabot, an Italian sailor who explored for the King of England. Cartier Da Verrazano (French) and Henry Hudson (Dutch) however, none of them could find it