<span>A. They lost much of their crops to floods and disease
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It is one of the several reason why farmers increasingly lost their independence to shopkeepers and merchants. this is because poor yield resulting from floods and diseases directed the masses to the shops and merchants ,away from the farmers.
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Neither one of the sides were fruitful in getting through the resistance of the other and bringing about a stalemate. Trench fighting developed due the disappointment of the Schliffen Plan. It was another arrangement of fighting which was an immediate reason for the stalemate, and this is the reason. It was an arrangement of resistance not offense.
Wilson said they entered into the war for neutrality