Read this excerpt from the letter of a World War I soldier. We are in the trenches just now. In fact we seem to spend about three times as much time in as we do out. . . .

What is the most likely reason that the soldiers were spending so much more time in the trenches?

A. to protect themselves from enemy fire and poison gas
B. to create dangerous areas called no-man’s-land
C. to avoid the spread of diseases
D. to use machine guns more easily

30 pts

the technology changed agriculture in an impacting manner since many people left the field work by a cellular or other technological appliances

even though you have attached neither the chart nor the generalizations, i have located them online. the right answer is d, since they are asking you about a generalization. you can only infer from the chart that between 2008 and 2009 the number of employed workers decreased significantly (from over 115 millions to 107 millions approximately), which signals some type of economic crisis.  

a. he allowed the people he conquered to keep their customs and religions.

he captured babylon and freed the jewish people to return to judah.