The result of the investiture controversy between pope gregory vii and emperor henry iv was

The weakening and eventually the break up of Germany

Explanation:

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there are no options provided but you can choose among the following gender-neutral pronouns: zir, hir, eir, vis, tem, eir.

in the normal course of maintaining a pronoun-antecedent agreement, we could have used the words his or her but since we are also required to use gender-neutral language, we need to replace it with its equivalent gender-neutral pronoun.