Why did so few cities develop in the southern colonies

Because the southern colonies revolved around agriculture

Explanation: the southern colonies made most of their profit through growing crops like cotton, Tabaco, and sugarcane, making densely populated cities redundant, this is the same reason why there were more slaves in the south, because they had more of a use for them and slaves could work on the plantations, if there was a slave in the north they would most likely do similar jobs to a housemaid.

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explanation:

these are the geographical features of the gupta empire.

1)it inherited the land owned by the mauryan empire.

2)one obvious difference between the two empires is that the gupta empire was smaller that the mauryan.

3)the gupta empire is located in the northern region of the subcontinent underneath the himalayan and hindu kush mountains.

the gupta empire, marked by extensive inventions and discoveries that contributed to hindu culture, in subjects such as science, technology, engineering, art, dialectic, literature, logic, mathematics, astronomy, religion, and philosophy.

this period was also known as the golden age of india