A and D
I mean... Eventually some kings left the Papal authority. However, remember the crusades? It united nearly everyone in Europe. Some to the point of making new states.
I hope I'm right!
Higher taxes would be the correct answer since the money to pay for the health care must come from <em>someone</em> (aka the people, themselves).
The first known pandemic was the Plague of Justinian, which took place in the Byzantine Empire in A.D. 542, it struck its capital Constantinople, part of the Sassanian Empire in the Middle East and several cities across the Eastern Mediterranean Sea. Modern scholars think it started in Central Asia.
It might be D, since that ties with agricultural
East, because Russia is east of germany