A Key Economic Consequence of the Plague Was

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.