Which of the following was a distinctive feature of the reign of Charlemagne?
A) Charlemagne's subjects lived in congested urban areas similar to the cities of the Roman Empire.
B) Due to Charlemagne's military conquests, most of Europe was under Carolingian rule at the beginning of the ninth century.
C) Charlemagne had built his empire from nothing.
D) Charlemagne ruled without the consent of the Frankish nobility.
E) Charlemagne's empire employed all of the machinery that we associate with the modern nation state.
B
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