Which option identifies what aided the ability to industrialize in the following scenario?
Settlers on prairie lands disturbed aquatic ecosystems in area streams as they continued to meet their own needs.
A. the development of new technology for equipment
B. the introduction of new species and resulting diseases
C. thetilling of new soil to produce crops for consumption
D. thediscovery of metals and resulting mining operations

the tilling of new soil to produce crops for consumption

Option C.

Explanation:

In the question that has been talked above, the prairie land led to the settling down of more people and for them to develop and industrialize because of the ecosystem of that area. The people who were living on that land, tilled the soil and led to the production of the new crops which served as a source of livelihood for them.

This proved as a great attraction for the people to settle down on that land and develop themselves because of the climatic and soil conditions of that area.

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