The correct answer is A) A country that has little fertile soil.
A country with a small amount of fertile soil is extremely limited in the food/crops they can grow. With this in mind, this country would need to be depend on trade with another country in order to survive. Without this other country helping, the country with a little fertile soil would struggle mightly to survive.
Answer: a stretch of muddy land left uncovered at low tide.
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i only brefily skimmed the paper so sorry if this doesnt help, but i think it would be cool if you acted as though you are a character investigating this situation kind of like jughead on riverdale lol