Answer:
C) German nobles imposed heavy taxes and high rents on peasants living on their land.
Explanation:
The war of the German peasants (in German: Deutscher Bauernkrieg), also called the revolution of the common man (in German: Erhebung des gemeinen Mannes) was a popular revolt in the Sacrum Germanic Roman Empire between 1524 and 1525. It consisted, as the movement precedent Bundschuh and the Hussite wars, in a series of revolts, both economic and religious, by peasants of Catholic religion, citizens and nobles who had passed to Luther's Protestantism. The movement did not have a common program. The conflict, which went deeper into southern, western and central Germany, but also affected areas of Austria and Switzerland, counted during the summer and spring of 1525 with an estimated total of 300,000 insurgent peasants and left a balance of 130,000 victims among the insurgents (100,000 according to other estimates). The popular revolt was the most massive and widespread in Europe until the French Revolution (1789).
At the beginning of the sixteenth century, the disintegration of the Holy Germanic Roman Empire accelerated. The powers and prerogatives of the regional princes had increased over the years to the detriment of the emperor, who in turn was engaged in the external defense of the empire in its struggles against France and the Ottoman Empire. The southern part of the empire, Swabia in particular, was divided into a multiplicity of relatively autonomous small fiefdoms.
In turn, the different social estates of these fiefs formed a complex mosaic of social strata, with sometimes conflicting interests and objectives, sometimes coinciding, which favored, even within the same group, intricate games of alliances and quarrels.
The reasons that led to the uprising of 1525 were multiple, but they were mainly due to the unfavorable evolution of the economic and legal situation of the peasants, an evolution that did not differ greatly between the two regimes.
