Answer:
Crusades were taking place, other important changes were occurring in medieval society. Between 1000 and 1300, agriculture, trade, and finance made significant advances. Towns and cities grew. This was in part due to the growing population and to territorial expansion of western Europe.
Laborious in this sentence means a task which requires a lot of efforts.
Answer: Option C.
<u>Explanation:</u>
Suffix is a kind of affix which is placed after the stem of the word in the word. This explains about the grammatical case of nouns and adjectives.
The word that has been used in the sentence which describes about the activity of the sentence is laborious. The activity speaks about that this task which is of making a four course dinner is not going to be easy and requires a lot of efforts in it.
I would choose around the Beginning of the AD time period so I could witness history pre-slavery, human life (especially in regards to health, such as diet) and aspects of religion.