The economic theory that trade generates wealth and is stimulated by the accumulation of profitable balances, which a government should encourage by means of protectionism. Mercantilism is an economic practice by which governments used their economies to augment state power at the expense of other countries. Governments sought to ensure that exports exceeded imports and to accumulate wealth in the form of bullion (mostly gold and silver).
The correct answer is "Parents refused to care for their dying children".
The situation to which the narrator is referring to as "even worse, and almost incredible" during the plage, is that parents were abandoning their suffering children. <u>This is what he found to be the most poignant and striking image that conveyed the extent of the horrors brought by the plague</u>. Mothers and fathers refused to care for their dying children or even visit them in innumerable cases.
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Tuscarora<span>, Meherrin, and Nottoway tribes — lived more inland, on the Inner Coastal Plain.</span>
