Women could inherit property from more than one husband.
People remarried and had blended families
The death rate was high.
The Chesapeake colonies.
The death rate in a country can be high or low. there is your sentence.
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Low
Demographic transition
No, it is actually the opposite. A high birth rate and a low death rate leads to increased populations.
It is a lie. They haven't a rate like that.
High rates.However, high interest rates are usually a consequence of high inflation rates and so what matters is not the interest rate but the real interest rate which is the nominal interest rate relative to the inflation rate.Thus a 3% interest rate when inflation is 1% is better that a 5% interest rate when inflation is 4%.
The high literacy rate helped to draw the separate colonies together by enabling them to learn about the way that each colony did things. They were able to learn to do these things themselves as well.
because it has such a high death rate - HIV/ AIDS as well as relatively high child mortality rate