Answer:
The absence of cash or an independent credit system led to the creation of sharecropping. ... Laws favoring landowners made it difficult or even illegal for sharecroppers to sell their crops to others besides their landlord, or prevented sharecroppers from moving if they were indebted to their landlord.
Answer:
Daedalus was bitter, angry, and jealous of Perdix's success at such a young age. Daedalus is jealous of Perdix's skill and wisdom. He wishes it could be his son, not Perdix, that is alive and well and angrily shoves Perdix out the tower.
Explanation:
Splurge. It also means to buy but is always used in reference to buying too much, which would give it a negative connotation, different than that of the word 'buy'.