The fall of the western roman empire contributed most directly to which circumstance?
a. the division of western europe into small germanic kingdoms
b. the establishment of the greek orthodox church
c. the feuds between religious and secular power over investiture
d. the spread of disease and the decline of the population

The correct answer should be
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.

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