How Might a Peasant Come to Own a Small Plot

question 64

Multiple Choice

How might a peasant come to own a small plot of farmland?

• A) Through the death of a landowner who had no heirs
• B) Through the well-field system, which allocated small plots for personal use, with the rest farmed for the lord
• C) By purchasing it with money earned from selling excess farm products and hand-made items
• D) By waging war on neighboring villages and seizing their land
• E) By a lottery system run by the king

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Definitions:

Inference Forms

Structured patterns of reasoning or argumentation that derive conclusions from premises based on logical principles.

MP

Abbreviation for "Modus Ponens," a logical argument form where from premises 'If P then Q' and 'P,' one can conclude 'Q.'

CD

A compact disc, a digital optical disc data storage format used for storing digital data.

DD

A commonly used abbreviation with multiple meanings, contextually dependent, such as "Due Diligence" in finance or "Double Density" in computing storage.