In 60 years, from 1801 to 1862, the amount of cotton picked daily by an enslaved person increased 400 percent. The profits from cotton propelled the US into a position as one of the leading economies in the world, and made the South its most prosperous region.
I believe the correct answer is <span>B. The art and music of this religious group is part of their historic tradition and can even be studied in non-religious or public school classes.
Art can never be separated from history - they are intertwined and almost always studied together. The same thing goes for Eastern Orthodox Christians - they study art and music as part of some of their subjects in school, regardless of the fact that they are considered to be 'religious.'
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China has become a world leader in production of farm products including rice, wheat, potatoes, sorghum, peanuts, tea millet, barley, cotton, oilseed and soybeans. Initially going back eons, first the use of cast iron tools and beasts of burden were introduced in agriculture. Now, while communes have beendisbanded, and individual farming has been restored, there are quotas for the individual farmers and also some state farms. In modern times, mechanization has been promoted and state sponsored projects like the Three Gorges Dam has provided significant irrigation.
When factories and power plants in that area burned coal, fossil fuels, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides