D is the one, but it is a trick question. Catholic Spain DID try to get the Netherlands to convert to Catholicism and remain under Spanish rule, but it never worked! The Netherlands resisted, and asked for (and got) English help in resisting the Spanish overlords. It led to the Thirty Years War, in which the Netherlands fought back against the Spanish.
Spain tried everything from the Inquisition to bloody reprisals, and the persecution of the Dutch Protestants. The English "loaned" Willliam of Orange to the Netherlands, who defeated the Spanish army.
Answer:
C. Emperor
Explanation:
The emperor had become a puppet-like figure in Feudal Japan. Shoguns were the head of the country at the time and kept the emperor on his "throne" because culturally, everything was done in the name of the emperor. The last Shogunate was the Tokugawa Clan was later overthrown by the emperor who restored his power to the throne.
