Europe's social structure was challenged by the growing number of free townspeople because they could not get a hold of everything already. With the addition of the increase of population, it is hard to divide resources and to everyone and this in return challenged the economy of the continent.
Well, there were tons of factors that generally made Late Middle Ages Europe a sucky place to live in.
For starters, there was The Black Death. An estimated half of the ENTIRE population died to this plague.
There were also lots of conflicts within territories, making everything extremely chaotic ON TOP of the fact that basically everyone was dying to a plague.
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the answer would be C) blaming the collapse of world trade and other economic failures on Jewish financiers.
