What was the attitude of lords to peasants opening wastelands to cultivation?
a. They discouraged it for fear of a drain on labor available to them.
b. They encouraged it by promising serfs freedom in exchange for moving to new lands.
c. They confiscated newly opened land from peasants and enserfed them.
d. They encouraged it by offering to buy the land from the peasants once it was improved.
e. They threatened to increase the services of serfs who moved to the new lands.
b
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