Answer:
English investors received a land grant from King James I. It created an incentive system where you gave money and you were promised land (with the royal seal, figuratively).
Explanation:
If you're familiar with the joint-stock company, these were the first examples of today's' corporations.
Answer: The mountains, which served as natural barriers and boundaries, dictated the political character of Greece. From early times the Greeks lived in independent communities isolated from one another by the landscape. Later these communities were organized into poleis or city-states. The mountains prevented large-scale farming and impelled the Greeks to look beyond their borders to new lands where fertile soil was more abundant.
