What Led to the Widespread Food Scarcity, Higher Prices, Thievery

question 26

Multiple Choice

What led to the widespread food scarcity, higher prices, thievery, and social disorder in the 1590s?

• A) the clearly structured relationship between nobles and the peasant population
• B) the nobles' tasks such as food production and protection of their lands
• C) the workers' acceptance of a small portion of what they produced for the nobles
• D) the workers' increased efforts to sell their labor for wages

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