The correct answer is <span>Nobles resisted change.
The country was exporting a lot of grain and this money was not invested into developing new technologies but rather aristocrats took it for themselves. This is when Peter the Great came and introduced the new nobility and started developing the country and modernizing it in order to make new things possible.</span>
Around that time, men were off in the war, leaving women to work the factory jobs. They had more work as more men fought.
Its C, production cost
(if you look up what are the functions of money it pops up if you want to check)