A Problem Faced by the Peasantry in the Fourteenth Century

question 69

Multiple Choice

A problem faced by the peasantry in the fourteenth century was

• A)high rents.
• B)general exemption of clergy and nobles from royal taxation.
• C)warfare.
• D)all of these choices
• E)none of these choices

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