What is mercantilism and how did jean-baptiste colbert use it to enrich france?

Mercantilism is basically an old form of capitalism. It was a way to increase profit and boost the economy. Jean-Baptiste Colbert used mercantilism to promote trade within France. He founded the French East India Company which instituted trading relations with other nations to increase France's influence in foreign countries. They traded dyes, furs, coffee, sugar, and other raw materials.

north east because it has more forest

the first 10 amendments to the u.s. constitution are known as the bill of rights. those 10 amendments establish the most basic freedoms for americans including the rights to worship how they want, speak how they want, and assembly and peaceably protest their government how they want. the amendments have also been subject to much interpretation since their adoption, particularly the right to carry a gun under the second amendment.

"a bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference," said thomas jefferson, the author of the declaration of independence and the third president of the united states.