<span>Some Europeans believed that the Black Death was sent by God
to punish them for their sins. The Black Death resulted to deaths of an
estimate of 75 to 200 million people in 1346-1353. It was a plague that was
caused by rat fleas that live on black rats that were regular passengers of
merchant ships that came from Central Asia and made its way to the Mediterranean
and Europe. The plague affected
religious, social, and economic ways of the Europeans. </span>
Answer:
I believe that it should continue to welcome Syrian refugees and provide asylum to them in this time of crisis. Canada should also continue to support them financially until they are self-sufficient. Canada can speed up the process of resettling them by having a better plan about housing when they arrive and hiring more personnel.
It should contribute by volunteering with the United Nations to provide resources, like food and medical aid, to the refugees who are not resettled.
Canada should also help by sending diplomats and peacekeepers to help solve the root of the problem.
The Bill of Rights is <span>your answer.</span>
Tobacco in Colonial Virginia
Contributed by Emily Jones Salmon and John Salmon
Tobacco was colonial Virginia's most successful cash crop. The tobacco that the first English settlers encountered in Virginia—the Virginia Indians' Nicotiana rustica—tasted dark and bitter to the English palate; it was John Rolfe who in 1612 obtained Spanish seeds, or Nicotiana tabacum, from the Orinoco River valley—seeds that, when planted in the relatively rich bottomland of the James River, produced a milder, yet still dark leaf that soon became the European standard. Over the next 160 years, tobacco production spread from the Tidewater area to the Blue Ridge Mountains, especially dominating the agriculture of the Chesapeake region. Beginning in 1619 the General Assembly put in place requirements for the inspection of tobacco and mandated the creation of port towns and warehouses. This system assisted in the development of major settlements at Norfolk, Alexandria, and Richmond. Tobacco formed the basis of the colony's economy: it was used to purchase the indentured servants and slaves to cultivate it, to pay local taxes and tithes, and to buy manufactured goods from England. Promissory notes payable in tobacco were even used as currency, with the cost of almost every commodity, from servants to wives, given in pounds of tobacco. Large planters usually shipped their tobacco directly to England, where consignment agents sold it in exchange for a cut of the profits, while smaller planters worked with local agents who bought their tobacco and supplied them with manufactured goods. In the mid-seventeenth century, overproduction and shipping disruptions related to a series of British wars caused the price of tobacco to fluctuate wildly. Prices stabilized again in the 1740s and 1750s, but the financial standings of small and large planters alike deteriorated throughout the 1760s and into the 1770s. By the advent of the American Revolution (1775–1783), some planters had switched to growing food crops, particularly wheat; many more began to farm these crops to support the war effort. In the first year of fighting, tobacco production in Virginia dropped to less than 25 percent of its annual prewar output.
