Basil II of Russia achieved political stability after
a. expelling the Mongols from Russia.
b. expelling the Tatars (Golden Horde).
c. quelling attacks from the Hanseatic League.
d. suppressing civil wars brought on by his family's challenge to his rule.
e. accepting Roman Catholicism instead of Eastern Orthodoxy.
d
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