Karl Marx argued that feudalism began to decline as manufacturing production increased.This:

A) created a need for workers
B) created a need for landowners
C) created a need for serfs to generate the raw materials for industrial production
D) created a trend toward unionization
E) none of these choices

Feudalism

A legal arrangement in preindustrial Europe that bound peasants to the land and obliged them to give their landlords a set part of the harvest. In exchange, landlords were required to protect peasants from marauders and open their storehouses and feed the peasants if crops failed.

Manufacturing Production

The process of converting raw materials or components into finished goods through the use of machinery and labor in factories.