Which book contains all the real estate surveyed by William the Conqueror and taxes due to them?

• A. Pipe Roll or the Great Roll of the Exchequer
• B. Domesday Book
• C. Summa de Arithmetica, Geometrica, Proportioni et Proportinalita
• D. The Industrial Revolution

Answer: (B)

The key idea is recognizing what the Domesday Book is: a detailed survey created by order of William the Conqueror to map landholdings and assess taxes. Around 1086, commissioners collected information on who held every piece of land, what resources it produced, and what tax or geld was due. This makes the book a comprehensive record of all real estate and the corresponding taxes, serving as both a land census and a taxation roll in Norman England. That’s why it’s the best fit for the description. The pipe rolls are records of royal revenues and expenditures rather than a land survey, the Summa de Arithmetica is an arithmetic treatise, and The Industrial Revolution refers to a historical era rather than a book containing land and tax data.