<u><em>The fur trade industry was the colony’s economic salvation</em></u>. For the first few years that the colony existed, the colonists struggled to make enough money to pay the investors back. In fact, they had to ask for more money just to keep the colony running and by the mid to late 1620s, they were deeply in debt to the investors.
<u>To help pay down the debt they still owed</u>, the colonists established a beaver fur trading base in Kennebec, Maine by 1625.
<u>This fur trading business was very successful for the colonists and quickly became an essential part of their economy</u>. Their success in this trade continued well into the 1630s and 1640s..
As they did not understand the biology of the disease, many people believe that the black death was a kind of divine punishment retribution for sins against god such as greed, blasphemy, heresy, fornication and worldliness. By this logic, the only way to overcome the plague was to win God‘s forgiveness.
a) the fertile soil led to food surpluses, which supported a larger group of people
I believe that the first one is A because Historiography means the study of history.
