Question

Which of the following was a significant challenge in building the Panama Canal?

Answer 1

The one that is significant challenge in building the Panama Canal is letter A or the frequent rains caused rivers to flood. The other challenge in building the Panama Canal is the outbreak of Malaria or the so-called yellow fever; it killed more the 20,000 people.

Answer 2

Solution: There were three major problems or the challenges faced in building the Panama Canal: rain, disease and transportation.

In wet seasons, rain caused mud slides thereby making the ground quite dangerous.

Few common diseases caused by mosquitoes were dengue fever, yellow fever, malaria which badly hit the massive labours killing many of them.

Transportation of men and soil was quite difficult.