Why Were the Crop Failures of the Early Fourteenth Century

question 20

Multiple Choice

Why were the crop failures of the early fourteenth century particularly devastating to Europeans?

• A)The population of Europe had tripled between the eleventh and fourteenth centuries.
• B)Europe had invested heavily in the campaigns of the crusades.
• C)The population of Europe had doubled between the eleventh and fourteenth centuries.
• D)Over the centuries,inheritance laws had divided land into parcels too small to support the average family.
• E)Land was unproductive because people of the Middle Ages had no concept of crop rotation.

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