A Key Economic Consequence of the Plague Was

question 39

Multiple Choice

A key economic consequence of the plague was

• A)the rapid expansion of European civic banking to rebuild industry.
• B)a decline in manorialism and weakening of feudalism as noble landlords desperate for cash converted peasant labor service to market rents, freeing their serfs.
• C)the more frequent bankruptcy of monarchs as they emptied their treasuries trying to provide poor relief.
• D)the very slow enrichment of middling peasant laborers who began to dominate rural communities.
• E)a long-term trend to abandon cities for the more secure rural environment.

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Definitions:

Experimental Method

A research method designed to test hypotheses and establish cause-and-effect relationships through manipulation and controlled conditions.

Population

The total number of individuals of a species living in a particular area or environment, considered together as a group for study in various sciences.

Biased Sample

A sample that does not accurately represent the population from which it was drawn, due to systematic exclusion of some part of the population.

Double-Blind Control

An experimental setup where neither the participants nor the experimenters know who is receiving a particular treatment, minimizing bias.