<span>D) they used rivers and bodies of water for food and for trade.</span>
Answer:
The middle class expanded as a result of industrialization.
The correct answer should be
<span>A. The division of Western Europe into small Germanic kingdoms
Many new Germanic states rose like the state of Franks and the Holy Roman Empire which consisted of Germanic tribes and also there were new states that rose throughout Italy. It became a feudal system of City-States that didn't exist when there was a strong central Roman Empire.</span>
Answer b on edge got it right
