What Was a Consequence for the Later Han Dynasty of the Landed

question 45

Multiple Choice

What was a consequence for the Later Han dynasty of the landed elites' manipulating tax regulations?

• A) Free peasants were forced to become tenant farmers whose rents rose rapidly.
• B) Merchants saw declining wealth and power as long-distance trade decreased.
• C) Buddhist monasteries were supported by the landowners to compensate for their treatment of peasants.
• D) Political authority was increasingly centralized within the hands of the newly rich scholar-officials.

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