Two reasons:
1. cold winters
2. rocky soils (not good for growing plants)
Instead, starting in the late 18th century, a series of innovations shifted textile production to a new factory system. And cotton led the way. As a result of the Industrial Revolution, cotton became the world's most important non-food agricultural<span> product and so it remains to this day.</span>
When he goes skating with Tami he will most likely remember how to skate due to his "childhood" memory
