The correct option is this: TROOPS WERE BASICALLY TRAPPED IN THEIR TRENCHES, PREVENTING PROGRESS TOWARD SEIZING ENEMY TERRITORY.
A trench refers to a long and deep ditch, big enough to accommodate humans. Trenches were used by soldiers during the World War 1. Soldiers faced a lot of difficulties living in these trenches, and it become a disadvantage to German and the other allied power, because the trenches hindered their progress towards seizing their enemies' territories.<span />
Some things that Japan borrowed from China was the tea seed which was brought into Japan as a medicine but then was developed as a drink. Also the chrysanthemum (flower) came from China but was then used as a symbol of fall in Japan.
A Samurai were the military nobility and officer caste of medieval and early-modern Japan. It was a very powerful military.
Isolationism is a policy where you have to remain apart from interests or affairs of other groups mainly the political affairs of other countries.
Japan went into isolationism (isolation) because of homogeneous society, increasingly dangerous European threats, and because Japan wanted to keep the Japanese worldview and lifestyle uncontaminated by the western ways.
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The right answer is C. Alchol consumption decreased but did not entirely stop.