You can view the ICS time scale online. It would be a good idea to print a copy (in colour) to put on your wall while you are studying geology. Geological time has been divided into four eons: Hadean (4570 to 4850 Ma), Archean (3850 to 2500 Ma), Proterozoic (2500 to 540 Ma), and Phanerozoic (540 Ma to present).
The colonists in New England specialized by using lumber for shipbuilding. The climate and land were not suitable for agriculture, but the forests provided large amounts of lumber. ... The New England colonies did not have very good farmland because of the rocky soil.
