The correct answer is
<span>extracting silver from the land using slave labor
They would do this using slaves from both the local population and the slaves from Africa. The fur trade and the buffaloes were mostly taken care of by France. Conquering thousands of settlements never happened but they did conquer quite a few.</span>
The correct answer is D. Solemn
Explanation
The tone is the name of the literary technique by which the writings convey to the reader their emotions and point of view regarding the topic that is being treated in the text. Also, a solemn tone refers to the tone that is intended to celebrate or highlight something in particular of text displayed as something extraordinary, with a script adorned with majestic words that make the reader as if they were facing something incredible, for example "he had an unbearable smell of the outdoors, the back side of his wings was strewn with parasites and his main feathers had been mistreated by terrestrial winds". According to the above, the text has a solemn tone because the author refers to this episode as a fantastic event. So, the correct answer is D. Solemn.
Technically, the only way to correctly answer this question is to read the document itself but the answers pretty simple to answer without it too.
The Nile was the holy grail for the people of ancient Egypt. After all, it provided water to drink, and also water for agriculture. It also provided the Egyptians with many fertile lands that were great for farming. Because of this, they prayed to their gods all the time so that the Nile wouldn't dry out.
