<u><em>The fur trade industry was the colony’s economic salvation</em></u>. For the first few years that the colony existed, the colonists struggled to make enough money to pay the investors back. In fact, they had to ask for more money just to keep the colony running and by the mid to late 1620s, they were deeply in debt to the investors.
<u>To help pay down the debt they still owed</u>, the colonists established a beaver fur trading base in Kennebec, Maine by 1625.
<u>This fur trading business was very successful for the colonists and quickly became an essential part of their economy</u>. Their success in this trade continued well into the 1630s and 1640s..
The correct answer is letter C. The assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand. That is the event that triggered the start of World War I. Archduke Ferdinand was from Austria, the heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary. He was assassinated by Yugoslav nationalist Gavrilo Princip on June 1914.
The Aztecs controlled Central Mexico and were the ones to make Mexico City (then called Tenochtitlan), while the Spanish renamed it to that of Mexico City.
