What / or who are they: Delaware, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey
Why middle: These were the 4 of the 13 original colonies that were between the northern and southern colonies.
Religion: this is the sentence you really like to write. There were all sorts of religions present, but not one of them could dominate. These 4 colonies had Lutherans, Mennonites, Calvinists (mostly Dutch), and Presbyterians.
Commerce: mostly agriculture at the time, but not restricted to 1 crop as the south was. Had good ports and growing cities (New York, Philadelphia). I like to include the well respected intellectual hotbed of people there like Ben Franklin.
Civil wars. Probably the most important single cause of Byzantium's collapse was its recurrent debilitating civil wars. Three of the worst periods of civil war and internal infighting took place during Byzantium's decline.
Answer: south America
Explanation: What is the capital of the country represented by number 4 on the map? Political map of South America with eight numbers. Number one is a large area of land that extends from the middle of the continent and along the east coast. Number two has a border along the northwest coast and is between number six to the north and number four to the south. Number three is in the south and runs through the middle to the narrow tip. Number four stretches along the northern part of the west coast. Number five borders the southern border of number four. Number five is landlocked in the middle and shares a southern border with number 3 and a smaller number eight. Number six is in the middle of the northern border. Number seven is very small and in the southern part of the east coast. It borders number three on the east and the southern tip of number 1. Number seven has a small strip of the east coast. Number eight is along the northern border of number three and the south eastern border of number five. La Paz Quito Cayenne Lima
A society by which most food in gained by foraging
