4,2,5,3,1 seems to be right
The answer is the number of 1865 followers
Merchants would be needed more because the warring states were constantly at war.(armies need supplies, merchants have supplies)
Demeter, the Goddess of the Harvest. What happened was that Demeter wanted to get her daughter back from Hades, so she took a "resignation" from her duties as the harvest goddess and all plants were decaying on Earth, and droughts started.
