By the Early Seventeenth Century, the English Great Lords

question 72

Multiple Choice

By the early seventeenth century, the English great lords

• A)had largely lost their military ethos but increased their influence in the government due to their commercial enterprises.
• B)had become a new composite class of great landowners and prosperous merchants.
• C)had largely abandoned their military function and were losing influence to the gentry.
• D)allied themselves with the townspeople against an upwardly mobile gentry.
• E)continued to dominate English politics.