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It can be inferred from paragraph 3 that people who farmed on land recently brought under cultivation were at a bigger disadvantage than well-established farmers in fourteenth-century Europe because A. their land was located in areas that were engaged in war B. they relied on urban financiers for credit C. they had no surplus on which to live or money to pay their rent D. they did not use wheeled plows, rotate their crops, or use natural fertilizer