Which of the Following Characterizes the Intersection of the Hierarchies

Which of the following characterizes the intersection of the hierarchies of wealth and orders in the Renaissance?

A) The nobility retained its status by blocking the newly wealthy from political positions and from marriage into the nobility.
B) The newly wealthy used their resources to establish new forms of social prestige that the nobility could not copy and which discredited the nobility as social leaders.
C) The newly wealthy rejected the claims of the nobility to moral superiority of landed wealth.
D) The nobility retained its status by taking in and integrating the new social elite of wealth.