Answer: slaves
Property owners in the south at the time began establishing plantation farms for cotton and cash crops like rice, Tobacco and sugar cane- enterprises that required an increasing amount of labour. To meet this need, wealthy planters turned to traders who imported slaves over to the colonies- mostly west African.
<span>With the amount of wealth that trade brought in to the economy and into general ancient Egyptian culture, many achievements were made possible, including the beginnings of modern medicine, and disease treatment and prevention as well as the development of an independent, widespread writing system. The beginnings of medicine and anatomical knowledge, most obviously, greatly assisted the infamous mummification process and allowed it to become the religious staple of their time. The creation and implementation of the hieroglyphical writing style also assisted in the creation of various influential religious documents as well as the beginnings of effective taxation of the population, and the creation of administrative positions solely responsible for recording things like this. </span>
The decline of agricultural economies