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>
Great Britain and France placed the newly formed United States in the middle of their problems in the late 1700s by pressuring the United States to take sides.