The northern sea route takes them thru artic waters and the water often freezes creating damage and delays
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Honestly, the only real reason for scientists to put telescopes into orbit is to get around the Earth's atmosphere that way they can get a clearer view of the planets, stars, and galaxies that they are studying.
The effects socially would be that the delivery will not be well respected and their will be conflict between the deliver and customer, business, etc . The effects economically would be that the business will start to decline in customers of interest in that area and potentially will make a bad name for that business in general, meaning less business and less money. This leads to a drop in business status worldwide. The effects environmentally are possibly limitless, it affects everything. By the service being poor many things and people could suffer, including greenery and yardwork or whatever. There will be an effect on environment but it depends on the service and how poor it is.
if this is a true or false question then no they did not believe rivers were gods but they did believe that certain gods could control rivers