The price revolution of the sixteenth century was apparently caused by
A) population growth and the influx of New World silver.
B) the lingering effects of the Black Death and its periodic return.
C) the new commercial ethos fostered, in part, by Calvinism.
D) religious wars.
E) growth in the size of peasant farms, which were able to produce cash crops.
Ans: A
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