In the Early Middle Ages, the cultivation of new land was hard for all of the following reasons EXCEPT
A) the heavy soils of northern Europe were difficult to plow.
B) climatic changes, including frequent heat waves, caused much of the land to be unfit for agricultural cultivation.
C) crude tools of the era made land clearing arduous.
D) German tribes traditionally considered trees sacred and resisted cutting them down.
E) All of these are correct.
B
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