I think your answer will be to 'soak up.'
A)it would protect British ships in New York and Philadelphia
Answer:
Punishments.
Explanation:
Punishments were given to the officials if smuggling was detected because the official commit the crime and according to the law, a man who commit crime should be punished. As a representative of an organization or government department, an official has a great responsibility to serve the department and the people of the country and avoid doing such type of crimes which damaged the his reputation.
Sumerians were known for two inventions:
irrigation, that is bringing water to crops that would otherwise not have access to it
and writing: cuneiform, one of two first writing systems on earth (the other being hieroglyphs).
Answer: They would be using mimicry to make themself seem dangerous to scare off predators. :)
