Among the adverse economic and population changes in fourteenth-century Europe were
A) shrinking peasant land holdings below the size needed to support a family.
B) an exodus of residents from overpopulated rural areas.
C) rapidly rising numbers of poor people in cities.
D) a and c
E) all the above

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All of the choices listed were adverse economic and population changes in fourteenth-century Europe. Peasant land holdings shrank due to population growth, inheritance laws, and the expansion of commercial agriculture. The Black Death also caused many people to flee from rural areas, contributing to overpopulation in cities where poverty rates became even higher.

Among the Adverse Economic and Population Changes in Fourteenth-Century Europe