The salaries increased, sometimes drastically some times slowly. An average worker in the 1900 had a salary between 256$ and $439 per year, while in 1929 the average salary was between 752$ and 1164$ per year. This all stopped and became much much worse when the great depression hit in the thirties which left the economy devastated.
"c. The city became a central hub for trade, which contributed to the empires growth" best describes the effect of Constantine moving the capital to Constantinople, since it was a thriving metropolis.
Every year the uzbek citizens are are forced by their own government to leave their regular jobs and go to the fields to pick cotton