A quality of life is subjective to the person, which is why it is highly individualized. It solely depends on how a person handles life through the positive and negative events that occur. It perceives life's level of satisfaction with friends, family, education and everything that defines life.
The Silk Road was a historical route for trade on which the goods from China (silk) and India (spices) were brought to Europe and sold. This route was providing good work and revenue for the merchants, but when it was closed (due to political changes on its route), the people searched for new ways of obtaining goods from India and China - and those new ways were what triggered the exploration - the hope for finding a new way to India and China.
Generally speaking, in the "environmental" sector, citizens work in jobs that usually avoid taxes or regulation, since the government wants to increase the number of people working to help the environment.
Black powder because it makes bullets for the guns that were created. Also grenades and whatnot.
Answer: D) They helped meet labor shortages for industry.
The braceros program was an agreement between Mexico and the U.S to recruit more than 300,000 Mexicans to work low-paying agricultural jobs in the United States.
Although they did help run the railroads for the transportation of agricultural products, they did not produce more automobiles, therefore B is not the answer. Moreover, people were not hired to produce new varieties of vegetables nor was irrigation introduced by them, ruling out option A and C. The answer is D. Mexicans were brought to the U.S to help meet labor shortages for the agricultural industry, as there were not enough people working in it at the time.