(A) taxes on income were needed by the government to raise revenues.
(B) land scarcity and a rapidly growing population seriously curtailed economic opportunities.
(C) most people of the period were unusually gullible and thus easily motivated by slogans and proverbs.
(D) formal education and specialized skills were less necessary to economic success than they would later become.
(E) legal restraints on the inheritance of wealth were increasing.
