Which of the following was NOT a reason for the decline of the landed nobility?
A. famines due to climate change and agricultural failures
B. population loss from the great plague
C. changing military tactics
D. the overuse of tournaments to settle disputes
E. alliances between kings and wealthy towns
Answer: D
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What will be an ideal response?
How did William Whyte, author of Organization Man, criticize the culture of America during the 1950s?
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Why did reformers turn their attention to prohibiting the sale of alcoholic beverages in the nineteenth century?
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Immanuel Kant argued that human perception is as much a product of the mind's activity as of ________
A. sensory perception B. human mortality C. the influence of a free society D. the existence of God