Answer:
The cotton gin
Explanation:
When Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin it provided a quicker method when it came to picking the seeds out of cotton. The faster the seeds could be picked out the more the plantation owners wanted a faster way to pick cotton.
Lacked status and poor conditions--Tokugawa Japan was a feudal system where commoners were unable to work up or gain status in the country.
Tokugawa Japan was a period of military rule in Japan where land owners and samurai had power and control in the country. Peasants and merchants were taxed heavily and were unable to work up in the system.
Merchants were particularly attacked during the Tokugawa rule as they represented western culture and influence. The shogun isolated Japan and close the borders so western influence could not change the Japanese system. This would stay this way until the 1800s when Japan would bring in a new government which would be merchant-focused.
The chinese dynasty qing was in power
They were folloing heards of food during the Ice Age, so the answer is C.
