What Made Famines Less Wide-Reaching and Devastating After the Fourteenth

question 50

Multiple Choice

What made famines less wide-reaching and devastating after the fourteenth century?

• A)So many people had died in the plague that there were fewer mouths to feed.
• B)The number of people killed in the crusades and wars took pressure off food production.
• C)The Little Ice Age caused a migration from Europe,so the land had to support fewer people.
• D)Technological breakthroughs made existing land more productive.
• E)When land became scarce,people turned to fishing and hunting.

---

Definitions:

Dollar Sales

Total revenue generated from the sale of goods or services, expressed in dollars.

Mixed Cost

A cost that contains both variable and fixed cost elements.

High-low Method

A technique in managerial accounting used to estimate the variable and fixed cost components of a cost formula, analyzing the highest and lowest levels of activity.

Scattergraph

A graphical method used in statistics to display the values of two variables for a set of data, helping to identify the relationship between them.