What ironic consequence did william penn’s generous policies, such as religious toleration and inexpensive land, have?
a. they contributed to the increasing reliance of virginia and maryland on african slave labor.
b. they encouraged poor residents of new york and new jersey to move to pennsylvania in such numbers that penn repealed his policies within a decade.
c. now that pennsylvania attracted so many settlers, carolina was desperate for laborers and began a vast indian slave trade.
d. they led the puritan authorities in massachusetts to adopt religious toleration in order to compete with pennsylvania for colonists.
e. they actually discouraged suspicious europeans from choosing pennsylvania as a place to settle?

b) almost one million irish people died during the potato famine.

the flooding of the nile was not a perfect occurrence. this gave rise to the belief in the gods and a highly stratified social structure. at the top of the social structure were gods such as ra and osiris because the egyptians believed that they controlled the universe. the egyptians tried their best to the gods because if they were happy, then the nile would flood producing an abundance of crops and preventing famine. after the gods came the pharaohs in social status. the egyptian people believed the pharaoh to be a god in mortal form. they had absolute power over the dominion which required protection through the of government officials and soldiers. the rest of the people’s status went in the order of scribes, merchants, artisans, farmers, and finally slaves.