Why were Aboriginal peoples, Asian men, and
women in a particularly desperate situation in the
1930s?

The 1930s Depression is profoundly and deeply associated, in the popular mind, with the prairie.

Explanation:

the factors that the economies of the muslim empires prosper were:

1- land trade routes-located between three continents  

2- sea trade routes

trade contributed to the spread of muslim empires, and with that islamic culture led to a growing feeling of internationalism resulted in the transfer of technology, science, and other cultural forms.