Government Debt.
Corruption.
Extreme weather.
Lack of control in local food.
Lack of access to education.
Mental illness - lack of proper psychiatric care.
World hunger.
Epidemic diseases.
<span>The answer is mobility.
Trench warfare was popular at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, Trenches, essentially large ditches men dug, and then took up defensive positions in, were very good at giving soldiers a place to hide from incoming automatic weapons fire and mortar strikes.
This however gave birth to "trench warfare", a style of combat relying on melee combat, short range weapons like shotguns, and worst of all, penetrating attacks the trenches couldn't protect from, such as shrapnel heavy grenades, flamethrowers, or even chemical weapon attacks.
Trench warfare was also terrible as the living conditions in the trenches often involved standing water, disease, and malnutrition.</span>
Question:
What is the * mean at the end of the sentence?
One of the things that Dutch trading companies promised to settlers in New Netherland was that they would be able to cultivate land and therefore have a surplus of crops to sell as exports.
It might be said that the French explorers learnt how to make boats suitable for the coastal waters, rivers and lakes when they were at the great Lakes. They decided to build small sailing- ships to travel the entire length of the Missouri and the Mississippi River to New Orleans on the golf of Mexico. They built native birch-bark canoes and large rafts.
