Plantations usually were bigger and grew only one to two things. while farms were either small and for one family or for a small village.
I believe it was Feudalism or feudal system.
People oppose the theory of environmental determinism because they agree with theidea of possibilism, which says that human behaviour is affected more by culture that their environment.
A) a system where people elect, by majority vote, someone to make decisions in the best interest of the people