In order to cope with declining agriculture within the Byzantine Empire, twelfth-century emperors began
a. to try to revive revenues by granting lands to great lords and to monasteries.
b. to reduce taxes on peasant-held lands and on commercial ventures.
c. to break up large estates and give them to peasants.
d. to seek new lands through conquest.
a
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