Well, I can tell you for sure that a is not the answer. But I think the answer would be b.
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Born in Wesel circa 1580, Peter Minuit joined the Dutch West Indian Company in the 1620s. Named director of the New Netherland colony in 1626, he is said to have negotiated a deal for the island of Manhattan with a Native American tribe and helped develop a profitable fur trade in the region.
Sharecroppers were free people and slaves weren't. Slaves didn't "rent" a piece of someone's land and work on it. They were forced to work on land since they were owned by the land owner.
Having more farmland during a war would allow for a larger capacity to produce food to feed the army. As the infantry is focused on the battle, things like food and other essential commodities increase in their intrinsic value because of what it represents, in that food gives energy to troops and the troops need energy to fight and win the war and/or battles. Napoleon and Frederick the Great are both attributed with saying "An army marches on its belly". Meaning fighting needs fuel and that fuel for soldiers is food, thus the importance of having a significant amount of farmland.
They thought gods had effect on everything - good harvest, disastrous floods, health, wealth. So, whoever they believed was close to the gods, such as priests, was in the upper class.
