The correct answer is b) to use the land in more profitable ways.
The Dutch and English landowners forced peasants off the land to use the land in more profitable ways.
The landowners wanted more financial gains, so they wanted their lands to be productive. The used the manorial system in which landowners exploited their serfs to work the land. They wanted to be part of a commerce center that produced money. That was the reason why peasants in England and Germany shifted to Village-based agriculture.
