Answer: B. Emperor Leo III was an iconoclast who thought that praying to icons was a violation of the second commandment, while the Pope thought praying to icons was fine.
<span>Various barbarian groups weakened the empire with a series of invasions. </span>
A historian has to out things chronological order so we know what happened first
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German princes picked the king weak royal authority, so states of Germany didn't unify during the middle ages.
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