Question

Why was it difficult for the merchants to set up business in towns in 17th and 18th century europe?

Answer 1

Explanation:

Merchants from towns in Europe began to move countryside in seventeenth and eighteenth centuries because of trade guilds, associations of producers, trained craftsmen and artisans who restricted the entry of new people into the trade. ... It was therefore difficult for new merchants to set up business in towns

Answer 2

Explanation:

The large plant's remain got converted to Coal because when they decay they produce a large amount of carbon along with other products. This carbon condenses giving a large amount of coal.

Whereas, the small plants and animals gave Natural gas and petroleum, because natural gas mainly consists of Methane and a lesser amount of Carbon, and Petroleum was formed formed the dead remains of marine animals and small plants.